According to the report of the Food and Pharmaceutical Safety Department of Korea on Jan 31 showed that foods imported from China by South Korea in 2018 amounted to $4.77 billion, with the main categories being spicy cabbage, salt and peppers.
According to the report, South Korea imported 18.55 million tons of foods from 166 countries last year, amounting to $27.4 billion, an increase of 9.7% over the same period last year.
From the point of view of importing countries, foods from the United States is the largest, about 6.43 billion US dollars, about 4.77 billion US dollars from China, about 2.4 billion US dollars from Australia, followed by Vietnam and Russia, the sum of which is 58.1% of the total imports.
According to the weight of imported foods, the order is U.S., Australia, China, Russia and Thailand, and the sum of the five countries accounts for 68.3% of the total.
From the point of view of import category, beef import is the largest, followed by pork, import of the largest category of processed food raw materials, followed by wheat and corn. In addition, 1483 batches of imported foods failed last year.
