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Six pork suppliers indicted over alleged price-fixing scheme

Prosecutors say suppliers colluded for years to raise pork prices at Emart by at least 20 percent, and also coordinated efforts to try to delete the evidence.

2026.8.4

This unrelated file photo shows a shopper looking around imported meat prodcuts at a large supermarket in Seoul on Dec. 15, 2020. [YONHAP]

Gov't cracks down on falsified country-of-origin meat labeling

The government launched a crackdown on importers, distributors and restaurants for falsifying the country of origin for meats, particularly in tourist areas, with duck found to be most mislabeled.

2025.8.25

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A restaurant in Myeong-dong, central Seoul, displays its menu and prices on April 6. [NEWS1]

Home for the holiday dinner: Rising restaurant prices squeeze households

Soaring restaurant prices send would-be diners back home to cook, as the cost of eating out climbed 2.1 percent on year in April.

2025.5.4

A user criticized the excessive amount of fat on the samgyeopsal, or pork belly, he bought at a department store in Namdong District, Incheon, in a post uploaded to the online community site Bobaedream on Sunday. [SCREEN CAPTURE]

Department stores butchered online for fatty meat

Consumers are taking to online communities to complain about disproportionate meat cuts at department stores.

2024.5.22

Discount marts offering promotions on pork belly ahead of unofficial samgyeopsal day

Models pose with packs of samgyeopsal, or pork belly, at an Emart's branch in central Seoul, on Thursday. Discount marts are running promotions on pork belly ahead of March 3, popularly known in Korea as Samgyeopsal Day.

2024.2.29

The Food Ministry re-issued a manual for samgyeopsal, or pork belly, that determines the appropriate amount of fat in each slice. [MINISTRY FOR FOOD, AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES]

Pork belly should include meat, Korean Food Ministry reminds sellers

The move comes after the samgyeopsal handed out as donation favors by Michuhol District, Incheon, was criticized online by recipients for containing too much fat and too little flesh.

2024.1.9

Samgyeopsal Day shopping

A customer shops for packs of samgyeopsal, or pork belly, at Emart's Yongsan branch in central Seoul, on Wednesday.

2023.3.1

Prices of agricultural goods are rising in Korea. People shop for groceries at a discount mart in Seoul on May 25. [NEWS1]

Sticker shock in produce aisle leaves shoppers gobsmacked

High inflation is hitting the fruit and produce aisles, with prices of melons, cabbages and lettuce soaring at double-digit rates. "I recall buying a watermelon at the 10,000-won ($8) level last summer, but now it's over 20,000 won,"

2022.6.5