‘Taste for One Era’ Mokpo City Hosts Solo Dining Table Review Event

Diversifying Food Tourism in Line with the Solo Travel Trend

Mokpo City, a city of flavors adapting to tourism trends. Photo by Mokpo City

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Jeong Seunghyun] The city of Mokpo in Jeonnam, known as the "City of Taste," held a tasting event for the single-person table setting "Delicious Solo Namdo Table" on October 29.

The tasting event showcased the single-person table settings from 10 selected establishments that received customized consulting after being chosen through a recruitment announcement in May, providing an opportunity to exchange processes.

The participating establishments plan to include the developed single-person table settings in their menus and begin full-scale sales starting in November. Additionally, the menus will be posted on the city’s website to introduce them to tourists.

This project was prepared to develop differentiated food tourism products targeting individual travelers, a travel trend in the post-COVID-19 era, to strengthen the competitiveness of dining establishments.

The city conducted education to understand changes and trends in dining culture during the COVID-19 era, with experts visiting each establishment to provide diagnosis, analysis, and customized solo Namdo table consulting. Furthermore, support such as providing tableware and visits to excellent dining establishments were carried out, receiving great responses from participating businesses.

A city official stated, “Mokpo cuisine is a representative tourism product with unique strengths that cannot be compared to other regions.

If differentiated and delicious single-person table settings that meet dining trends are added, the level of Mokpo’s dining culture will further improve, competitiveness will increase, and this will lead to revitalization of the dining industry.”

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