Pulmuone Establishes 'Yuksang Kim Research Center'... Production Facility to Be Built by End of Next Year

Plan to Commercialize Gim Products Using Land-Based Gim Cultivation Technology by 2027

Pulmuone announced on the 29th that it will build a 'Land-based Gim Research and Development (R&D) Center' in the Gunsan Saemangeum Seafood Export Processing Complex.

Expected aerial view of the land-based seaweed research and development center to be established by Pulmuone [Provided by Pulmuone]

On the previous day, Pulmuone held an investment agreement ceremony at the Gunsan Saemangeum Convention Center with Kim Jong-hoon, Vice Governor of Jeollabuk-do Special Self-Governing Province for Economic Affairs, and Kang Im-jun, Mayor of Gunsan, among others, and signed this investment agreement.

The Saemangeum Seafood Export Processing Complex is an industrial complex being developed by Gunsan City to foster the seafood industry, including dried gim, as a new regional industry. Since April, Gunsan City has been recruiting companies to move into this complex, and finally selected 12 companies, including Pulmuone, as tenants.

Under this agreement, Pulmuone plans to invest 6 billion KRW over five years starting next year to establish a 'Land-based Gim Research and Development Center' covering approximately 9,240 square meters (about 2,800 pyeong), and to build land-based gim aquaculture processing production facilities by the end of next year. A Pulmuone official explained, "By 2027, we will process seaweed produced using land-based aquaculture technology into products such as dried gim and gim snacks."

Land-based gim aquaculture is carried out by cultivating and harvesting gim in large tanks that create an environment similar to the sea. Pulmuone explained that gim farmed on land has a lower risk of infection from diseases such as seaweed disease, and can be produced year-round, making it an important technology in the gim aquaculture industry.

Pulmuone began developing land-based gim aquaculture technology in 2021 and signed a joint research memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Jeollabuk-do in the field of marine aquaculture the following year. In March, Pulmuone obtained a license for land-based tank seawater aquaculture and is producing more than 10 kg of land-based gim monthly at the Pulmuone Technology Institute located in Osong, Chungbuk.

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