Instant Noodles the Top Food Amid Pandemic

Instant noodles took the top spot in production among food products in South Korea in 2020 on a surge in exports amid the coronavirus pandemic, The Korea Herald reported citing data from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety.

The output of instant noodles, or “ramyeon” in Korean, stood at 1.93 million tonnes in 2020, up a whopping 231% from a year earlier, according to the data.

Read the full report: The Korea Herald.

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Jim Pollard

Jim Pollard is an Australian journalist based in Thailand since 1999. He worked for News Ltd papers in Sydney, Perth, London and Melbourne before travelling through SE Asia in the late 90s. He was a senior editor at The Nation for 17+ years and has a family in Bangkok.