Introduction
With the passage of time, Korean exports of agricultural products have undergone many changes. During the 1950s and 1960s, major agricultural exports included rice, cocoons, ginseng and tobacco. In the 1970s, canned mushrooms, chestnuts, mushrooms, arrowroot wallpaper, and oriental...
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Dr. Jeongbin Im
Professor
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development
College of Agricultural and Life Science
Seoul National University
Seoul, Korea
E-mail: jeongbin@snu.ac.kr
Korea’s export promotion policies for agro-food products was established and...
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VIETNAM AGRICULTURAL EXPORT GROWING, BUT FACING NEW CHALLENGES
The year 2018 is a successful year in Vietnam's agricultural exports. Despite declining world market prices of many industrial crops and increasing requirements in food safety, Vietnam's agricultural export value still grows strongly...
South Korea said Monday it has completed negotiations with Vietnam to ship paprika, a type of bell pepper, to the Southeast Asian country.
Seoul had been negotiating with Hanoi since 2008 on export terms for paprika, whose outbound shipments currently depend heavily on neighboring Japan, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs.
South Korea's exports of paprika reached US$91.5 million in 2019, with Japan accounting for a whopping 99.7 percent of the volume. Other destinations include Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Russia.
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