SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s wine imports more than doubled to touch a new high in the first half of the year as more people enjoyed drinking at home due to the coronavirus pandemic, data showed Thursday. Asia’s fourth-largest economy imported US$236.9 million worth of wine in the January-June period, up 110 [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s wine imports more than doubled in the first quarter of the year as more people enjoyed drinking at home due to the coronavirus outbreak, data showed Wednesday. Asia’s fourth-largest economy imported US$109.7 million worth of wine in the January-March period, up 115.4 percent from a year earlier, [...]
SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s imports of Japanese beer climbed for the fifth straight month in January, data showed Thursday, amid signs of a weaker local boycott of goods from the neighboring country. Asia’s fourth-largest economy brought in 1,072 tons of Japanese beer in January, up a whopping 670.3 percent from the [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s wine imports reached a record high in 2020 as more people enjoyed drinking at home and alone due to the coronavirus outbreak, data showed Thursday. Asia’s fourth-largest economy imported 54,127 tons of wines last year, up 24.4 percent from a year earlier, according to the data by [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Imports of foreign draft beer and fruit flavored beer are increasing. South Korean retail giant E-Mart Inc.’s imported beer sales fell for 18 straight months after June 2019 following a boycott movement against Japanese beer and other products. The decline finally ended in December of last year, when imported [...]
SEOUL, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Germany saw its imports decline last year due to the economic slump caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, but the country’s imports from South Korea turned out to have increased. The Frankfurt office of the state-run Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency analyzed data from 2020 released by the Federal Statistical Office [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s imports of onions grew more than fourfold in the first two months of 2021 from a year earlier, as the long rainy season and a series of typhoons have dealt a harsh blow on the production. Imports of onions came to 13,715 tons this year through Wednesday [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s imports of whisky plunged to a 21-year low in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic and a change in alcohol consumption here, government data showed Tuesday. The value of whisky imports amounted to US$132.5 million last year, down 13.9 percent from the previous year, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s imports of Japanese beer plunged nearly 86 percent in 2020 due to a local boycott of goods from the neighboring country, data showed Thursday. Seoul brought in US$5.67 million worth of Japanese beer last year, down 85.7 percent from a year earlier, according to the data from [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s wine imports soared to a record high in 2020 as more people enjoyed drinking and partied at home due to the coronavirus outbreak, government data showed Monday. South Korea imported US$239 million worth of wines in the January-November period last year, much higher than the $204 million [...]