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 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Rice has long been a big part of the Korean diet. And despite a recent decline in the consumption of the staple, rice still remains an irreplaceable dish in Korean cuisine, with an annual average rice consumption per capita of 62.9kg (2015). The ancient kings of Korea used to [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean rice hit shelves in Beijing for the first time in history on Thursday to meet rising Chinese demand for Korean-made agricultural products and foodstuffs. China’s state-run agricultural trading company COFCO Corp. imported some 72 tons of South Korean rice in February and put it on sale in an upscale [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean actor Kim Soo-hyun donated 11.1 tons of rice that he received from his fans all over the world to the country’s Salvation Army, his agency said Wednesday. Kim donated the rice during a ceremony to kick off the Christian charity organization’s year-end donation campaign held at Seoul [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s rice production hit a six-year high in 2015 caused by greater yield per cultivated land, government data showed Friday. According to the data from Statistics Korea, South Korea produced a total of 4.32 million tons of rice this year, up 2 percent from 4.24 million tons a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The government has decided to intervene in South Korea’s rice market as it announced it would purchase up to 180,000 tons of rice to ensure a stable national supply, its first move since 2010. Growing worries that a bumper crop of rice and a decline in rice consumption may [...]
SUWON, South Korea, Oct 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Rural Development Administration said on October 9 that its agronomic scientists have developed a new rice variety naturally resistant to the rice water weevil, an insect pest that is known to attack stored rice and rice crops. Rice water weevils are difficult pests to eradicate as the [...]