KOTRA (CEO Jeong-yeol Yoo), which hosts the ‘2023 Seoul International Food Industry Exhibition (SEOUL FOOD 2023, hereinafter referred to as Seoul Food 2023)’, is hosting the ‘SEOUL FOOD AWARDS 2023′ to discover excellent products and support growth among companies participating in this exhibition. )’ was selected and announced.
The ‘Seoul Food Awards’ is an awards ceremony that provides a overview of trends in the food industry and discovers excellent products at home and abroad to provide various benefits and support growth. It is judged by experts in four categories: ▲Healing ▲Innovation ▲Food Tech ▲Favorite Food was selected through .
First, in the ‘healing’ category, ▲’Daedam 3′ and ‘Daedam 13′, traditional liquor brewed three times only with rice, water, malt, and bamboo leaves from Sacheon, Gyeongsangnam-do from Daebat Goeul Agricultural Cooperative Corporation ▲Healthy snack using domestic sweet potatoes from The More Food’ Crispy’ ▲ ‘Perilla Seed Rice Cake Soup’ and ‘Perilla Seed Sujebi’, a simple recipe that combines the taste, nutrition and convenience of Chilgap Farms ▲ ‘Chuper Bang Show Sleepy Gaba’, a non-alcoholic wine and sleeping drink with GABA from Lorenchu Company Co., Ltd. ‘ Excellent products in the health and wellness field were selected.
Next, in the ‘Innovation’ category, ▲’Pop Rice Cake’, a popcorn-shaped snack using rice rice cake from Baekje Co., Ltd., an agricultural corporation ▲ ‘Protein Salmon Chip’, a highlight product of glutinous rice coated with nutritious salmon skin from Sea World Co., Ltd. ▲ Rodem Food Co., Ltd. ‘6 kinds of Seoul Madame Tteokmari’, which are oven-baked rice cakes filled with various ingredients ▲ ‘Tokyo Mentsu Cutlet’ and ‘Sunjin Tokyo Hambag’, which bring out the outstanding flavor of Sunjin FS Co., Ltd. Innovative in terms of production and eating methods, taste and functionality The products received awards.
In particular, at this year’s Seoul Food Awards, a new ‘Food Tech’ category was established and awarded in line with the growth trend of the food tech market incorporating IT technology. The newly established food tech field includes ▲ Depo Induction Co., Ltd.’s ‘3D automatic three-dimensional stirring induction stir-fry pot’ with simultaneous rotation of horizontal and vertical axes ▲ Elroy Labs Co., Ltd.’s ‘AI hyperspectral foreign matter separator’ that detects foreign substances using deep learning hyperspectral technology. ‘ ▲ Chamko Chungha Co., Ltd.’s ‘high-frequency thawing machine’ that can thaw even thick raw materials in their packaging in a short period of time ▲ D&D Electronics Co., Ltd.’s ‘large-capacity sterilizing water manufacturing system’ that produces eco-friendly sterilizing water using only water and a small amount of salt as raw materials ▲ Hansol Paper We will provide various support to lead future food technology by selecting excellent technologies such as ‘Paper Sealing Tray’, which is a paper packaging container exclusively for MAP, which increases recyclability by making film separation easy.
In addition, in the ‘favorite food’ category, ▲ Natural Woori’s ‘Baked Tofu Oven-baked Green Onion Tofu Snack’ ▲ SJ Core Co., Ltd.’s easy frozen meal kit tteokbokki ‘Nostalgic Kookmin School Tteokbokki’ ▲ Aqua Link Co., Ltd.’s camping dish ‘Black Tiger Cheese Shrimp’, which is perfect as a shrimp, and ‘Frozen Boiled Garlic Butter Lily’ from H Food Supply Co., Ltd., which is made by boiling washed and peeled lilies and quickly cooling them to broth, were named.
In addition, global companies will be selected this year, which is expected to help expand awareness among domestic consumers and advance the market. Poland’s Polska Róża Ernest Michalski’s ‘Shot for immunity’ was selected in the healing category, Taiwan’s SHIH CHEn FOODS’ ‘3:15PM BOBA Tea’ was selected in the preference food category, and Poland’s Laboratoria Natury’s ‘Healthy Skin Collagen VitaBites’ was selected in the innovation category.
Each company selected for this year’s Seoul Food Awards will have the opportunity to promote their products in the awards special zone within the exhibition hall, as well as receive a KOTRA certificate and certification logo that can be useful for export, distribution, and promotional marketing. Seoul Food booth rental fee for 2024 It offers various perks such as discounts.
An official from the Seoul Food Awards said, “Products that will lead food industry trends in various fields were named at the Seoul Food Awards, which is being held for the 9th time this year,” and added, “We will continue to introduce excellent products through the Seoul Food Awards and strive for product growth.” “We plan to develop it so that the road to expansion of sales channels can be wide open,” he said.
Meanwhile, ‘Seoul Food 5’, which opened at KINTEX in Goyang-si on Tuesday, May 30, will be held until Friday, June 2023 with 39 countries, 1,316 companies, and 2,515 booths.
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