SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Special drive-through seafood sales to help fish farmers struggling with the aftermath of the coronavirus outbreak have ended in a major success. The city of Pohang and the Pohang Fish Farmers Association held a series drive-through sales on March 14 and 15 as well as Saturday and Sunday to [...]
POHANG, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Pohang in North Gyeongsang Province has implemented a drive-through system to sell seafood in a bid to prevent further spread of the coronavirus. The city office and the Pohang Fish Farming Association sold lunch boxes that come with raw fish filets on the roadside of Guryongpo [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Teenagers in South Korea do not want seafood that is served for school meals, although they believe it to be nutritious and excellent. According to a survey of 1,000 middle and high school students nationwide conducted by the Korea Maritime Institute, 81.5 percent said fisheries products are excellent food [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is set to launch a special crackdown on the origin of imported fisheries products. Targeted items include a large number of imported fishery products that are imported from Japan. The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries and the National Fishery Products Quality Management Service (NFQS) said Tuesday they [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Food companies are coming up with variety of recipes, including salmon and tuna, for home meal replacement (HMR) products. In 2017, South Koreans consumed 58.4 kilograms of fishery products per person, surpassing Japan to become the largest consumers in the world. According to the Norwegian Seafood Council, the favorite [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will expand support to develop a wide range of quality fish cake products and step up marketing efforts to boost sales at home and abroad, the oceans ministry said Wednesday. The fish cake, called “eomuk” in Korean, is a processed seafood product made of ground white fish [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s yearly per capita consumption of seafood has reached nearly 60 kilograms, making the nation one of the world’s largest consumers of natural sea products, ahead of Norway and Japan. These numbers were reiterated by the Norwegian Seafood Council at a press conference held yesterday in central Seoul. [...]
SEOUL, April 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Deep fried squid has almost disappeared at street food vendors across South Korea, as prices of the beloved seafood continue to surge. Kim, who orders street food takeaway from time to time, was left shocked after learning that deep fried squid was taken off the menu at his favorite snack [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — High levels of paralytic toxins have spread along South Korea’s southeastern coast and contaminated shellfish, the maritime ministry said Wednesday, vowing to tighten oversight over the harvesting of the seafood. Earlier this month, paralytic toxins were detected in waters near the southern port city of Busan and Geoje Island [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will appeal the World Trade Organization’s ruling on its import restrictions on Japanese seafood after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and keep them in place until a final decision is made, Seoul’s trade ministry said Friday. Japan officially lodged a complaint at the WTO in 2015 to [...]