Korea

The Introduction and Effect of Public-Purpose Direct Payment Program in Korea

Jongin Kim
ABSTRACT It has been pointed out that the direct payment system of rice caused an oversupply of rice. In addition, polarization of direct payments according to the size of farms was also raised as a problem. Accordingly, in 2020, the Korean government reorganized the former direct payment system...
Country: Korea Topic: Overview
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Trade Status between South Korea and Vietnam and the Vietnamese Market Condition

Byoung-Hoon Lee
ABSTRACT Since the Korea-Vietnam FTA went into effect, Vietnam’s imports of Korean agricultural and livestock products have increased 26.6% annually due to lower tariff rates. Vietnam exported $460 million worth of agricultural and livestock products to Korea in 2018, the fourth-largest export...
Country: Korea Topic: Trade liberalization and countermeasures
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Impact of COVID-19 on Food Consumption and Dietary Behavior in South Korea

Sanghyo Kim, Jeong-hun Ji, Seong-yong Shin, Yeon-A Hong, Seong-Yoon Heo
ABSTRACT The recent outbreak of COVID-19 in South Korea has significantly changed food consumption behavior. While sales in the restaurant business declined as consumers who concerned about infection refrained from going out, the number of having meals with family members at home increased,...
Country: Korea Topic: Overview
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An Analysis on the Changes in Agrifood Consumption in Restaurants and Schools since the COVID-19 pandemic

Sanghyo Kim, Donghyun Moon, Jeong-hun Ji, Minsun Kim, Seong-yong Shin
We estimated the decrease in the amount of agricultural product purchases by calculating the change in restaurant sales and the change in agrifood for school meals after Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak based on the data from NAVER Co., Ltd. and Statistics Korea (KOSTAT). The results...
Country: Korea Topic: Overview
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Korea’s Policy on Employing Foreign Workers in Agricultural Sector

Jeong-bin Im, Kyuho Kim
ABSTRACT Korean agriculture has traditionally been maintained in the form of collaborative labor among the villagers and labor exchanges in families and rural villages. However, as economic development progresses, the proportion of family labor, joint labor and labor exchange of rural community...
Country: Korea Topic: Agricultural human resources developmentFarmers' welfare and retirement system
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