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Korean food
Mom's Touch adds two new restaurants in Mongolia
South Korean homegrown burger and chicken brand Mom's Touch & Co. announced on Friday that it has recently opened its sixth and seventh stores in...
Jun 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
S.Korean companies open K-food section at Amazon
South Korean small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will showcase Korean food (K-food) on Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce platform, the Min...
Jun 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
Frozen kimbap market emerges as new K-food battlefield
South Korean fishery processing and seafood major Sajo Daerim Corp. has forayed into the frozen kimbap market, becoming a new big player in the count...
Jun 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
Korean food firms chase sizzling K-food demand with expansion
South Korean food companies are scrambling to ramp up factory output at home and abroad to meet the insatiable appetite for Korean flavors and aromas...
Jun 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
KGC enters Malaysian healty functional food market
Korea Ginseng Corp. (KGC), wholly owned by South Korean tobacco giant KT&G Corp., announced on June 13 that it sells its red ginseng brand Jung K...
Jun 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
Daesang to scale up meal kits, kimchi production in Vietnam
Daesang Corp., South Korea’s leading food maker, said on Monday its two Vietnamese operations have each completed their second plant in the cou...
Jun 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
Mega Coffee to open first store in Mongolia
South Korea's low-price coffee chain, Mega MGC Coffee, announced on Tuesday that it will open its first overseas store in Mongolia on May 30. This i...
May 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
Seaweed, dubbed ‘Korea’s black semiconductor,’ powers its economy
Dried seaweed, widely used to make kimbap, or seaweed-wrapped rice rolls, is often referred to as the “black semiconductor” in South Kore...
May 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
S.Korea's monthly ramen export surpasses $100 mn
The monthly export value of South Korea's ramen exceeded $100 million for the first time. According to the Korea Customs Service's trade statistics r...
May 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
Lotte Wellfood, Studio Dragon to collaborate on K-contents
South Korea's Lotte Wellfood Co. announced on Friday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with K-drama producer Studio Dragon to colla...
May 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
CJ CheilJedang profit beats forecasts on overseas business
South Korean food giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. on Tuesday reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit on healthy overseas businesses and cost cuts...
May 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
Ottogi, KTO partner to attract foreign tourists
The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) announced on Monday that it signed a memorandum of understanding with domestic food company Ottogi to attract fo...
May 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
CJ's Bibigo Gimbap enters Australian Woolworths stores
South Korea's food giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. announced on Sunday that it released its Bibigo frozen Gimbap products at Woolworths, Australia's numbe...
May 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
Overseas Korean food fans choose soju, bibimbap as favorites
South Korea’s soju and bibimbap are respectively the most popular liquor and food among foreigners, according to survey results released by the...
May 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
CJ's Bibigo bolsters sports marketing with PGA tours sponsorship
Scottie Scheffler, a top-ranked American professional golfer, gave a shoutout to food served by CJ CheilJedang Corp. during The CJ Cup golf tournamen...
Apr 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
CJ CheilJedang's K-style rice gains popularity in N.America
South Korea’s CJ CheilJedang Corp. said on Tuesday that its sales of the flagship brand Bibigo’s Cooked Sticky White Rice in North Americ...
Apr 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
HD Hyundai Oilbank kicks off biodiesel mass production
HD Hyundai Oilbank Co., South Korea’s refiner backed by Saudi Aramco, started mass production of biodiesel to expand its eco-friendly energy bu...
Apr 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
Korean kimchi makers spur production in US, Australia
South Korean top food makers such as CJ CheilJedang Corp. and Daesang Corp. are expanding their kimchi factories overseas to meet growing demand for ...
Apr 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
Korea’s ramen exports on course to reach $1 bn in 2024
South Korea’s instant ramen noodle exports soared to a record monthly high in February, data showed, on course to hit the $1 billion mark in 20...
Mar 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Premium children's brands buck falling birth rate in Korea
Premium children's clothing and food brands have bucked the economic slowdown in a country grappling with the world’s lowest birth rate as Sout...
Mar 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
Paris Baguette opens first store in Hawaii
Paris Baguette, the bakery franchise owned by South Korea's SPC Group, announced on Monday that it opened its first store in Hawaii, the US. The sto...
Feb 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Venture downturn keeps Korean unicorns from acquisitions
South Korean unicorns, or private companies worth $1 billion or more, are increasingly refraining from taking over smaller startups for business expa...
Feb 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
BBQ opens delivery store in Vietnam
BBQ, a popular South Korean fried chicken brand announced on Friday that it opened its first delivery and takeout store in Vietnam.The store is at Vi...
Feb 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
India's love for Korean pizza spurs Gopizza’s global business
South Korea’s Gopizza Inc. opened its 50th branch in India, the world’s most populous country, as the food tech startup aims to attract m...
Feb 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea’s inflation at 6-month low in further relief to BOK
South Korea’s headline inflation dropped for a third straight month to a six-month low on declining oil prices, adding relief to the central ba...
Feb 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
After frozen Kimbap craze, here comes Korean street food
It all began in August, when hundreds of tons of frozen South Korean kimbap, or seaweed-wrapped rice rolls, sold out within a month of their arrival ...
Feb 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
Lotte Mart debuts Korean street food store in Indonesia
South Korea's Lotte Mart has introduced its first specialized grocery store overseas, announcing the opening of its revamped Gandaria store in Jakart...
Jan 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
Nongshim to open brand zone in Myeongdong, Seoul
South Korean food and beverage giant Nongshim Co. announced on Friday that it will open its brand zone in Myeongdong, Seoul with the domestic street ...
Jan 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
Nongshim sees record-high Shin Ramyun sales
South Korean food and beverage giant Nongshim Co. announced on Wednesday that its signature instant noodle brand Shin Ramyun saw a record high of 1....
Jan 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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