Geochang-gun Operates Promotion Booth at COEX Food Week

Promotion and Market Development of Geochang Apple Processed Products

Coex Food Week Promotion Hall operated by Geochang-gun, Gyeongnam.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] Geochang-gun, Gyeongnam Province, is operating the Geochang-gun promotional booth at 'COEX Food Week 2022,' held for four days from the 2nd to the 5th at COEX in Seoul.

COEX Food Week is hosted by COEX and supported by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Rural Development Administration, Korea Food Research Institute, and others. It is the largest comprehensive food exhibition in Korea, featuring 1,400 booths from 20 countries, showcasing domestic and international food products, fresh foods, processed foods, convenience foods, and machinery and equipment.

The county is participating with the Geochang Farmers Processing Cooperative, agricultural product processing companies, and convergence business promotion companies to exhibit and promote processed products using Geochang apples and local agricultural products, such as apple juice, apple bread, apple butter, cider (fermented apple wine), apple ice bars, and apple cosmetics, while also conducting tasting and experiential events.

On the 4th, more than 50 processing farmers and sixth industry farmers from Geochang-gun plan to visit the Food Week expo to strengthen their processing capabilities.

Park Seung-jin, director of the Agricultural Technology Center, said, “We hope this will be a great opportunity to experience the changing agricultural product processing and distribution market and to directly meet consumers and buyers to promote excellent agricultural processed products from Geochang-gun.”

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