Kim Chun-jin, aT President, "We Will Do Our Best to Expand Frozen Gimbap Exports"

Visit to 'Bok-eul Mandeuneun Saramdeul'... Discussion on Export Expansion Plans

Kim Chun-jin, President of the Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corporation (aT), visited ‘Bokulmandeuneun Saramdeul’ (hereinafter referred to as Bokmansa), a frozen gimbap manufacturing and export company that is creating a sensation in the United States, on the 22nd to discuss ways to foster and export rice processed foods.

Established in Hadong, Gyeongnam in 2015, Bokmansa holds the country’s first patents for frozen gimbap and cheese stick manufacturing technologies. Starting with Hong Kong in 2020, it currently exports frozen gimbap to 19 countries including the United States and the United Kingdom. It also won the grand prize, the overall first place, at the ‘2022 Export Agriculture Best Practices Competition’ hosted by the Rural Development Administration.

President Kim stated, "With the trend of preferring convenience foods and the Korean Wave, the export of processed foods will continue to expand," and emphasized, "Going forward, the corporation will do its best to continuously discover and foster promising export items with high growth potential such as frozen gimbap, contributing to the improvement of domestic farm income and the expansion of exports."

On the 22nd, Kim Chun-jin, President of the Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corporation (second from the right), visited the export strawberry sorting center at Jinju Sugok Nonghyup and observed the strawberry sorting process with officials.
[Photo by Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corporation]

On the same day, he visited the agricultural product distribution center with the Sugok Nonghyup export strawberry sorting facility located in Jinju, Gyeongnam, to inspect the site and discuss ways to revitalize strawberry exports together with ‘K-Berry,’ an agricultural corporation that is the integrated export organization for Korean strawberries.

President Kim said, "Korean strawberries, which recorded $71 million in exports last year, are a key export item among fresh agricultural products," and added, "Going forward, the corporation will work with integrated export organizations composed of producers and exporters to widely promote the excellence of Korean fresh agricultural products and strengthen competitiveness to contribute to export expansion."

President Kim also discussed with Ha Seung-cheol, the mayor of Hadong County, about expanding sales channels and exports of local agricultural and fishery products, and agreed to strengthen cooperation for the development of the agro-fisheries food industry.

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