SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s kimchi consumption is falling, despite the country being the originator of the pickled side dish, and even those being served on dining tables are often imports from China, research results showed Wednesday. According to an industry analysis by the World Institute of Kimchi in Seoul, South Koreans on [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea food supplements sold abroad are contaminated with excessive levels of heavy metals, a source familiar with the matter said Tuesday. The announcement comes as South Korean health authorities collected 13 types of food supplements that are currently being circulated abroad and found that of the samples of [...]
GANGNEUNG, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) – With only two years left to go until the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, a suggestion popped up during a strategy forum at Gangneung, a city in Gangwon Province, that Korea should host a food festival that introduces the province’s food culture to the rest of the [...]
SAO PAULO, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The organizing committee of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics has included kimchi, the traditional Korean side dish of fermented cabbage with a variety of spicy seasonings, on the menu for athletes taking part in the competition, an industry group said Thursday. The Korean Food Buyers Association of Central [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Nutritional information on food products is often hard to read, and sometimes quite ambiguous. But this information will become more legible with the latest government amendment to labeling regulations. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety revealed Tuesday the revised version of its ‘Labeling Standards for Food Products’, which [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Foreign visitors to South Korea chose “ganjang gejang,” or raw crab marinated in soy sauce, as the most challenging Korean food, a survey showed Monday. According to the survey of 726 foreigners who visited the country between April and May, 508 respondents, or 65 percent, said the marinated crab is [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul city government said Thursday it has launched a committee to select a food that can represent the city in an effort to diversify tourism resources in the capital. The Seoul Metropolitan Government said a total of 12 experts joined the newly established committee earlier this month. The [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Insects are considered an alternative source of nutrition for our future, in which we may suffer from lack of food resources. In general, 100g of insects such as mealworms, crickets, or grasshoppers, is known to provide 100kcal of calories. Compared to rice or beans, which provide 300 to 400kcal [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A government survey confirmed Wednesday many one-person households here have abnormal eating habits and are vulnerable to malnutrition. One in three people living alone skip breakfast, according to the Korea Rural Economic Institute, a state-funded think tank. It conducted a survey of 500 single-person households and the same number [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Science has finally explained why people overeat when they are sleep deprived. The online Washington Post and Medical Express reported that professor Erin Hanron at the medical college of the University of Chicago figured out that a lack of sleep increases 2-arachidonoyl glycerol (2-AG), which is a chemical substance [...]