YANGYANG, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Wild pine mushrooms from Yangyang, South Korea, known as “Yangyang songi,” have shattered price records, selling for an unprecedented 1.6 million won per kilogram. The Yangyang Sokcho Forestry Cooperative reported on October 1 that during the previous day’s auction, top-grade Yangyang songi mushrooms reached this new pinnacle. The auction prices [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – A mushroom species native to Korea has been found to possess the ability to inhibit muscle cell death, according to research conducted by the National Institute of Biological Resources and a team led by professor Kim Seung-young from Sun Moon University. On June 10, the researchers announced that the cultured [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – A mushroom native to Ulleungdo that has already been confirmed to have anti-cancer and antioxidation effects has now been discovered to possess anti-inflammatory properties as well. The National Institute of Biological Resources (NIBR) announced on Wednesday that a mushroom native to Ulleungdo, the “small yellow polyporus varius mushroom,” first identified [...]
DANYANG, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Roadside trees with ‘mushroom haircuts’ in Danyang County, 193 kilometers southeast of Seoul, are attracting attention. The county office has pruned some 800 three-flower maple trees lining city streets and carried out pest control operations to create a beautiful landscape. The county planted plane trees along its streets in [...]
JINJU, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Gyeongsangnam-do Agricultural Research and Extension Services (GNARES) announced on Tuesday that had developed a low-cost food source to reduce the production cost of larvae of Protaetia brevitarsis seulensis, an edible insect, and had started to increase the competitiveness of farming the larvae by supplying the low-cost food to farmers. [...]
NAMWON, Jul. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A rare type of puffball mushroom has been discovered yet again this year in Korea at an apple orchard near the foot of Mt. Jiri in Namwon, North Jeolla Province. This is the 15th mushroom of the same category found in the same region over the last five years. [...]