SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Yonhap) – South Korea’s top portal operator Naver Corp. said Wednesday it released a new photo application through the LINE messenger platform, aiming at meeting users’ growing need to post food photos on their social network accounts. The Foodie app provides 24 filters for food-related photos taken by users. Naver said it [...]
SEOUL, Nov.26 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent survey shows that 4 out of 10 adults in Korea eat out more than once a day, while spending an average of 10,110 won for lunch. According to Alix Partners, a global management consulting company, the results of its ‘2015 Survey on Food Service Industry Customers’ conducted with [...]
Jeongseon, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The protein bars made of insects in the movie ‘Snowpiercer’ might have been an accurate harbinger of future foods, as Jeongseon-gun is planning to launch cricket concentrate for edible purposes. As the Korean Food and Drug Administration temporarily allowed crickets to be used for edible purposes, Jeongseon-gun is stepping [...]
SEJONG, Mar. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s consumer prices grew less than 1 percent for the third month in a row in February, with the pace of growth the slowest since mid-1999, a government report showed Tuesday. The country’s consumer price index edged up 0.5 percent last month from a year earlier, down from [...]
Barcelona, Jan 15, 2015 (Korea Bizwire) – Nuts and dried fruits consumption has been associated with a reduced risk of major chronic diseases, including cardiovascular disease, and the International Nut & Dried Fruit Council aims to make such benefits known through its new application INC Cartoons. In just one minute, the superheroes from INC Cartoons [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – When you take a stroll along the main streets or countless back alleys of sprawling Seoul, you inevitably run across an endless array of stores and and restaurants — and many coffee stores. And you might be overwhelmed by the countless number of coffee branches, such as Starbucks, TOM N TOMS, [...]
DUBLIN, IRELAND, Jul 8 (Korea Bizwire) –Research and Markets (http://bit.ly/1nb05NL) has announced the addition of the “Global Carbohydrase Market 2014-2019: Amylases, Cellulases, and Others for Microorganisms, Animals, and Plants” report to their offering. Global industries are speedily inculcating the usage of enzymes in light of the numerous advantages they offer. The enzyme group considered in [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs and the Korea Food and Drug Administration proudly announced that, as of March 26 (local time), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has officially approved Korea as an exporter of processed poultries which has opened up the gates for [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C., Mar 27, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Today, 1 in 6 Americans is hungry. Yet the current food insecurity problem pales in comparison to the challenges of the future. The ability to feed a rapidly growing world population was a focal point of educational programs held in Washington, D.C., this week in conjunction with [...]
COLLINSVILLE, Conn., Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean BBQ Beef Simmer Sauce is the first new addition to the Passage Foods cooking sauce line for 2014. Continuing the Passage Foods tradition of creating easy-to-prepare authentic simmer sauce recipes from international cuisines around the world, the Passage To Korea™ BBQ Beef recipe is smoky, sweet and just [...]