'Controversial Campus Meal' Featuring Bugs, Nails, and Cable Ties Sparks Outrage Among University Students

Foreign Substance Found in Cafeteria Food at 4-Year University in Yongin
Issue Arises After Change of Food Service Provider

There is controversy over claims that foreign substances such as cable ties, nails, and insects were found in school meals at a four-year university located in Yongin.

On the 13th, multiple posts and photos of insects in school meals were uploaded on a university bulletin board of the anonymous college student community Everytime, sparking outrage among students. The poster uploaded a photo of boneless gamjatang (pork bone soup with potatoes) served as a school meal and wrote, "This is not perilla powder but an insect, right? No matter how I look at it, it has legs," adding, "I guess the food I got was just unlucky to have so many."

Foreign substance found in university cafeteria food.
[Photo by Online Community]

In the photos posted by the user, several foreign substances presumed to have legs are floating in the soup that appears to be gamjatang. In addition, current students have consecutively posted photos of food containing glass shards in kalguksu (knife-cut noodle soup), kimchi tied with cable ties, nails taken out of soup, and packaging plastic waste.

This situation reportedly arose after the school meal provider changed at the beginning of the second semester.

Students responded, "We found out how to report to the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety. Let's protect our rights ourselves," "I will never eat the school meals again before changing the provider. Even if I eat it, I am still hungry and it tastes bad," and "At this point, people who eat school meals instead of convenience store lunch boxes are suckers."

Netizens who saw the photos left comments expressing their anger, such as "No matter how poorly managed it was, can it be like this?", "In what kind of environment are they making food?", and "Do we have to eat such school meals while paying ten million won in tuition?"

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