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The Office of Agricultural Affairs hosted the 7th annual Roundtable on Agriculture in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in Seoul on September 13, 2018.

South Korea’s HRI Food Service sector continues to grow as the nation’s socio-economic changes continues to spur consumers’ spending on dining out.

South Korea’s imports of American food and agricultural products in 2018 through October totaled $7.9 billion, up 16.8 percent from the same period of the previous year.

Due to bad weather during the flowering and fruit growing seasons, Korean fresh apple production is projected to decrease by 14 percent to 467,800 metric tons (MT) in Marketing Year (MY) 2018/19.

Korea’s Ministry of Food and Drug Safety will begin implementation of its previously announced pesticide Positive List System (PLS) on January 1, 2019.

On November 13, 2018, Statistics Korea (KOSTAT) released its revised 2018 rice production estimate of 3.868 million metric tons (MMT), slightly down from 3.875 MMT, the initial rice production....

South Africa's agricultural exports reached an estimated $256 million in 2014, up from $226 million in 2010.

South Korea is the fifth largest export market for American agriculture.

Korea is an excellent market for American fruit juices.

Korea’s total citrus production for Marketing Year (MY) 2014/15 is forecast at 688,000 metric tons (MT), 2.4 percent higher than the 672,000 MT of MY 2013/14.

The Korea - Australia FTA will go into effect on December 12, 2014. The first year of this FTA will cover the period December 12-31, 2014.

On November 15, 2014, Statistics Korea (KOSTAT) released its revised rice production estimate of 4,240,739 metric tons.