Ministry of SMEs Opens 'Baeknyeon Gage' Meal Kit Restaurant at Incheon Airport

Taegukdang, a century-old bakery located in Jangchung-dong, Jung-gu, Seoul.
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[Asia Economy Reporter Donghyun Choi] The Ministry of SMEs and Startups announced on the 21st that it held an opening ceremony for the 'Baeknyeon Gage' meal kit restaurant on the 1st floor Arrival Hall B of Incheon International Airport Terminal 2, in collaboration with the Small Enterprise and Market Service and Incheon International Airport Corporation.

This opening ceremony was organized to commemorate the entry of the Baeknyeon Gage meal kit restaurant, which combines meal kit cooking and sales space with digital promotion, into Incheon Airport, and to widely promote the excellence of Baeknyeon Gage through a report on the progress and achievements of Baeknyeon Gage support so far. Baeknyeon Gage is a project that discovers excellent small business owners with long experience and know-how and supports them to sustain and grow for more than a hundred years.

The Baeknyeon Gage meal kit restaurant opening this time offers Baeknyeon Gage meal kit products, finally selected through a national preference survey and recommendations from regional Baeknyeon Gage cooperatives, as dining menu items within the store.

Thus, it has become the only restaurant nationwide where the traditional tastes of Baeknyeon Gage scattered across the country are productized into meal kits, allowing customers to enjoy Baeknyeon Gage foods from all over Korea in one place. It is expected to become an innovative leading model that spreads the Baeknyeon Gage brand and realizes social value.

The featured menu includes ▲ ‘Bibim Soba’, ‘Buckwheat Soba’, and ‘Buckwheat Noodles’ from ‘Jinmijip’ in Jeonbuk ▲ ‘Pork Soup (Geonbong Gukbap)’ from ‘Geonbong Gukbap’ in Jeonnam ▲ ‘Beef Bone Sundae Soup’ from ‘Sinpo Sundae’ in Incheon ▲ ‘Jjolmyeon (Spicy Cold Noodles)’ from ‘Nadri’ in Gyeongbuk ▲ ‘Samgyetang (Black Garlic Dokgye Tang)’ and ‘Seolleongtang (Dokgye Seolleongtang)’ from ‘Ilwoljeong’ in Daegu ▲ ‘Gukbap (Jangteo Gukbap)’ from ‘Anilok’ in Gyeonggi ▲ ‘Donggeurangttaeng (Yukwonjeon)’ from ‘Jeondongjip’ in Incheon ▲ ‘Chueotang (Saegip Chueotang)’ from ‘Saegip’ in Jeonbuk ▲ ‘Intestine Soup (Goni Intestine Soup)’ from ‘Gungjung Haemultang Josijip’ in Busan.

In January next year, another Baeknyeon Gage meal kit exclusive restaurant will open inside Incheon Airport (Terminal 1).

Meanwhile, recently, individual Baeknyeon Gage stores have united to establish the Baeknyeon Gage Cooperative Federation, composed of seven cooperatives. They plan to create various success stories to achieve both common interests and social value realization.

Minister Lee Young of the Ministry of SMEs and Startups said, “This Baeknyeon Gage meal kit restaurant is the first case of fostering entrepreneurial small business owners, one of the current government’s national tasks, establishing an innovative business model through the organization and scaling of small business owners,” adding, “The Ministry of SMEs and Startups will be a strong supporter of small business owners who are striving to build self-sustainability despite the recent complex crises such as high interest rates.”

Park Seonghyo, Director of the Small Enterprise and Market Service, said, “I hope the Baeknyeon Gage store at Incheon Airport will bring joy to domestic consumers with Baeknyeon Gage foods from across the country and satisfy foreigners passing through the airport, contributing to further elevating the status of K-Food.”

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