Korea

The State and the Prospects of Korean Households’ Expenditure on Processed Food in 2017

Kyei-Im Lee, Sanghyo Kim, Seong-Yoon Heo
ABSTRACT Statistics Korea (KOSTAT) had quarterly conducted the Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) to analyze households’ current conditions and changes of living until 2016. In 2017, the Household Income and Expenditure Survey was divided into two sections: a quarterly survey on...
Country: Korea Topic: Agribusiness
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Rice Precision Farming in Korea

Sang-Cheol Kim, Jae-Soo Lee, Kuk-Hwan Kim
ABSTRACT The Korean agricultural situation is expected to change more rapidly in future. In particular, the globalization and expansion of food markets in the world following the expansion of market liberalization would also require a new agricultural paradigm. It is important to seek a new...
Country: Korea Topic: Smart agriculture
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Korean Gap Trends Focused on Environmentally and Consumer Friendly Food Production

Hwang-Yong Kim
ABSTRACT Korean GAP certification system plays an important role in the consumer-friendly and eco-friendly development of Korean agriculture. It was established in 2006. Since then the number of certified farms has been continuously increased. In 2017, it exceeded 86,000, which is approximately 8....
Country: Korea Topic: Food security and safety
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Recent Farm Economy in Korea: Situation and Implications

ChanHee Rhew, Hongseok Seo, Taehoo Kim
INTRODUCTION Farm economy in Korea has long been said to suffer from “double squeezing” in lowered revenue along with increased operation costs, which is believed to have a negative impact on the sector’s long-term sustainability and re-productivity. In addition, a sign of income equality being...
Country: Korea Topic: Regional agricultural economy
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The 3rd Food Industry Promotion Basic Plan - Proposing the vision of innovative growth in the food industry responsible for the health and well-being of the people –

Byoung-Hoon Lee
  ABSTRACT   The “Food industry promotion basic plan” is a mid-to long-term legally mandated plan which is established every five years, and is based on the ‘food industry promotion act’ which aims to strengthen competitiveness of the food industry and to promote the industry....
Country: Korea Topic: New paradigm of agriculture
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