SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans’ consumption of rice hit an all-time low in 2022 due mainly to changes in diet and eating habits, data showed Friday. The average South Korean consumed 56.7 kilograms of rice last year, down 0.4 percent, or 0.2 kilogram, from the previous year, according to the data compiled [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans’ consumption of rice hit an all-time low in 2021, but the decreasing rate slowed on the back of a growing demand for home meals amid the COVID-19 pandemic, data showed Thursday. The average South Korean consumed 56.9 kilograms of rice last year, down 1.4 percent or 0.8 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s per capita annual rice consumption fell to a record low in 2019 amid changes in diet and eating habits, data showed Thursday. Per capita average annual rice consumption hit a fresh low of 59.2 kilograms last year, down 3 percent from a year earlier, according to the [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s per capita annual rice consumption fell an average 2.3 percent annually over the past three decades, data showed Thursday. Per capita average annual rice consumption hit a record low of 61 kilograms in 2018, compared with a record high of 136.4 kilograms in 1970, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s per capita rice consumption is forecast to hit a new low in 2017 due to people’s changing eating habits, a report showed Monday. The average annual consumption of rice per person is likely to reach 59.6 kilograms this year, compared with 61.9 kg a year earlier, according [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Per capita rice consumption in South Korea hit a fresh record low last year amid rapid changes in eating habits, government data showed Tuesday. The average annual consumption of rice per person fell to 61.9 kilograms last year, down 1.6 percent from the previous year’s 62.9 kg, according to [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government said Thursday that it will purchase all of this year’s rice surplus as part of efforts to deal with a chronic supply glut of the staple crop. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs projected that some 300,000 tons of rice will be in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Once a diet staple, rice consumption is rapidly declining in Korea. Over the past 30 years, Korea’s rice consumption per capita has more than halved, dropping from 128.1kg in 1985 to 62.9kg in 2015, with Koreans adopting Westernized diets seeking alternatives like wheat or bread. Amid the changing food [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) - Per capita rice consumption in South Korea hit a record low in 2015 as people added other types of grain products to their diet, government data showed Friday. The average annual consumption of rice per person fell to 62.9 kilograms last year, down 3.4 percent from the previous year’s 65.1 [...]
SEJONG, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) – South Koreans are consuming more meat than ever while their annual intake of rice continues to set record lows every year, a government report showed Monday. According to the report from the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, the country’s annual per capita consumption of meat came to [...]