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COVID-19 has shaped food trends in South Korea with online food sales growing by 46 percent in 2020 to $17 billion.

FAS/Seoul projects Korea’s corn imports and consumption to increase in 2021/22, recovering from a projected 3 percent decline in imports during the current marketing year.

The 2020 U.S. Agricultural Export Yearbook provides a statistical summary of U.S. agricultural commodity exports to the world. This summary lists only the United States’ primary trading partners.

South Korean wine imports reached a record $330 million in 2020, up 27 percent from 2019.

South Korean wine imports reached a record $330 million in 2020, up 27 percent from 2019. Imports from the United States totaled $56 million, up 65 percent.

The Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional (HRI) foodservice sector in South Korea continues to grow as on-going socio-economic changes promote increased consumer spending on dining outside of the home.

As you will see from several articles coffee continues to be one of the favorites among ‘brewed’ beverages in South Korea, particularly for cafes and also restaurants.

The Korean government announced that it will seek to mitigate overproduction of rice through measures including reduction of area for rice cultivation to 711,000 Ha by 2018, planting of other crops...

On December 23, 2015, Korea announced an updated list of adjustment tariffs and voluntary tariff rate quotas (TRQs) for certain agricultural, forestry and fishery products, effective through 2016.