More people in Korea are buying breakfast at convenience stores on their way to work or school, say retailers. Rising food prices and an increase in single-person households are driving the shift, especially among consumers in their 30s and 40s.
Several universities, including Korea University, launched a 1,000-won (70-cent) breakfast program this week as the new semester began, offering students affordable meals.
The 1,000-won (70 cents) breakfast program will be available at 200 universities this year, starting earlier than usual to provide affordable meals before the spring semester begins.
Sookmyung Women’s University is offering students lunch boxes for only 1,000 won ($0.75) throughout November in collaboration with GS Retail.
Soonchunhyang University announced Tuesday that it has started offering 100-won ($0.07) breakfasts for students, undercutting the previously popular 1,000-won meals.
The 1,000-won ($0.8) breakfast offered at select universities in Korea might be gone for good as schools and regional governments are running out of budget for the program.
We need politicians who care about the future more than votes from university students.
The program in fact is worsening the divide between richer universities that can offer the cheap cafeteria breakfast and the poorer ones that can’t.
The "1,000-won breakfast" program will more than double in scale, announced the Food Ministry on Wednesday, backed by the high demand and positive feedback from students.
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