FOODEX JAPAN 2010
Demand for safe and health foodstuffs has been growing worldwide. Reflecting increasing interests in the ¡®well-being¡¯ trend, South Korean food companies have been dedicated to lifting their products¡¯ quality and nutrition levels to global standards, presenting diverse highly functional food products to attract the taste of health-conscious consumers around the world.
Thanks to these efforts, some of Korea¡¯s food products, including traditional tea, ginseng and Korea¡¯s rice wine as well as agricultural produces, fruits and various health supplements are growing in popularity as health foods with high nutritional value in overseas markets, including Japan and other Asian countries.
Targeting Japanese consumers, some of Korea¡¯s food suppliers will attend FOODEX JAPAN 2010, slated from March 2 to 5 at Makuhari Messe. They will present high-quality homegrown products, including traditional tea, ginseng, agricultural produces and various ready-to-cook items.

Bokumjari Co., a specialist in fruit jams and fruit tea products, began producing strawberry and grape jams in the early 1980s, when these products were still unfamiliar in Korea. Today the firm makes nine kinds of jam (strawberry, grape, apple, plum, peach, orange, apricot, maesil, and zucchini) and 10 different teas, including citron, apricot, omija, bokboonja, quince, honey apricot, grape juice, ginseng, gamro, and maesil.

Chungsoo Food Co. specializes in development and production of premium-quality salt products. Its roasted salt product are supplied to Daesang, one of Korea¡¯s biggest food companies, dominates about 65% market share in the Korea¡¯s roasted salt market on an OEM basis. It has also exported salt products to Japan since 1999.

Since its founding in 1992, Kuan Industrial Co. has exported Korean ginseng extract and Korean red ginseng extract. Furthermore, the company has lately put much focus on developing lactic acid bacterium-fermented ginseng products.

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