SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — What has been the most popular restaurant food choice for families on Children’s Day on May 5 or Parent’s Day on May 8 ? According to a big data study conducted by major credit card issuer KB Kookmin Card Co., card expenditures on lobster, crab and duck meat spiked [...]
DAEJEON, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology said Monday that a research team had developed a portable ‘electronic nose’ that can check whether meat has spoiled in real-time. The electronic nose can even detect a tiny amount of cadaverine and putrescine, which generate bad odors caused by meat [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Wednesday it plans to adopt the positive list system (PLS) to regulate the maximum residue limit of chemicals in meat and fish products in 2024. Under the measure, South Korea will set the ceiling of 0.01 milligrams per kilogram concerning the use of any types of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean agricultural cooperative is pushing to introduce a vending machine selling livestock products, such as pork and beef, targeting the increasing number of single-person households in the country, industry sources said Friday. The National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, known as Nonghyup here, will first showcase the dispenser at [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean diet has shifted rapidly over the past half century to become more westernized, with increased consumption of meat and a drop in rice consumption. According to a recent report by Nonghyup’s Livestock & Economy Research Institute, the average annual meat consumption per person for 2015 was 47.6kg, [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) – For the past ten years, westernized dietary patterns of Koreans have led to increased consumption of meat, while consumption of grain has decreased. The average Korean consumes more meat than individuals in neighboring countries including China and Japan, according to the Korea Times. Based on the ‘Report on a Change [...]
SEJONG, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) – South Koreans’ meat consumption has increased a large extent for the past few decades but still lags far behind the average intake of other advanced countries, a government report showed Friday. According to the report from the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, the country’s annual per-capita consumption [...]