SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corp. hosted the final round of a K-food cooking contest in Los Angeles last week. A panel of judges comprised of six chefs currently running restaurants in Los Angeles and New York have been evaluating the competitors. Finalist Hector De Haro from Glendale [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won, who serves as chairman of the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI), is stepping up to spearhead the industrialization of Korean food in the private sector. The business body announced Tuesday that it has chosen Korean food’s industrialization as the primary theme for [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan’s young generation is leading demand for Korean food in the country as they increasingly prefer ‘authentic’ Korean food. The Korea Agro-Fisheries and Food Trade Corp. (aT) said Sunday that Japan’s MZ generation, born between the 1980s and early 2000s, prefers the ‘originality’ of Korean food. Despite Japan’s overall [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The favorite Korean food among foreigners turned out to be Korean-style fried chicken. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and the Korean Food Promotion Institute conducted a survey of 8,500 individuals from New York, Paris and 15 major cities around the world to ask them about the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Global consumers picked kimchi as their most preferred Korean dish, a poll showed Thursday, amid the growing popularity of traditional Korean food, known as hansik, in line with the boom of the country’s pop culture around the world. Nearly 34 percent of the respondents said they preferred eating kimchi, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Hong Kong’s craze for Korean food continues to grow despite the coronavirus pandemic. Korean stores and Korean side-dish vendors are gaining massive popularity despite social distancing measures and work-from-home policies in effect for months. At Korean food stores, crowds are easily seen as they flock to vendors to buy [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s exports of foodstuffs to Thailand rose 14.7 percent in the first half of 2020, data showed Thursday, on the back of rising demand for ready-to-eat products amid the new coronavirus pandemic. Outbound shipments of foodstuffs to the Southeast Asian country reached US$112 million over the January-June period, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The state-run Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) reported on Thursday that K-food is gaining a reputation in Indonesia’s local food franchise and processed food markets. An increasing number of local food producers are introducing new products that resemble K-food. The agency reported that Korean snacks, bread, topokki (spicy rice [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The rising popularity of the Korean Wave in Vietnam is helping local consumers fall in love with Korean spicy food. A local restaurant franchise Sasin was the first to introduce Vietnamese to Korean spicy food when it was established in Ho Chi Minh City in 2016. Sasin, a franchise [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean food is infiltrating the Indian food market, where import restrictions are known to be notoriously strict. Soy milk and dried laver made in South Korea are being sold in India after passing all relevant customs and authorization procedures required in the country. Korean food was widely distributed in [...]