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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....

On November 19, 2015, Korea lifted the import ban on poultry and poultry meat products that had been imposed in December 2014 due to the outbreak of HPAI.

Korean coffee imports data showed 27 percent increase in value of $527 million and 17 percent increase in volume of 134,000 Metric Tons in 2014 compared to the year 2013.

News and consumer trends in South Korea’s food market.

Section Updated: Section I, II, IV, V, VI, VII, and Appendix I, II. The updates include the new Special Act on Imported Food Safety Management, which shall go into effect on February 4, 2016.