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[wylies99]

U.S. beef imports up for Chuseok

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2893480

August 11, 2008
With just over a month until Chuseok, one of Korea�s biggest national holidays, imports of bone-in U.S. beef are flooding into the country.

Local meat importer E-net Corp. said 60 tons of American beef, including 40 tons of the tender short ribs used in Korean marinated delicacy galbi, arrived at the port of Busan yesterday.

The imported goods from E-net are headed for retailers and online shopping malls later this week after passing through quarantine inspection and customs.

The probable price of tender short ribs will be 1,700 won ($1.6) per 100 grams, and 1,000 won for 100 grams of chuck eye roll.

More meat is on the way. On Aug. 14, E-net is planning on bringing in 80 more tons of beef, and 60 tons will follow four days later.

Another importer, A-meat, is planning to import 100 tons of meat by Aug. 15.

A market insider who wished not to be identified said that the beef is selling better than expected. �Importers are rushing to get orders for U.S. beef because demand is likely to increase sharply with Chuseok coming up,� the insider said.

He added that the imports are likely to exceed 1,000 tons of meat this month.

Meanwhile, California-based beef manufacturer S&S has voluntarily recalled 69 tons of ground beef after the U.S. Food Safety and Inspection Service found Escherichia coli, or E. coli, in its product. Last week a Boy Scout camp in Virginia was shut down after 27 people got sick, possibly from the beef.

Nebraska Beef, another U.S. beef manufacturer, recalled 540 tons of beef products after over 30 people became ill, likely from the product.

The Korean Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery said if any imported beef is found to be contaminated with E. coli, it will be returned.


By Kwon Hyuk-joo, Moon Byung-joo JoongAng Ilbo [[email protected]]

[caniff]

I relish the prospect of bowing to American beef (and my ancestors).

[wylies99]

Those huge numbers sure sound D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S.

Lea and Perrins and A1 are available at Costco.

[sojourner1]

Kool! So the meat supply crisis will be over by the end of this week or maybe within a month? I've noticed there's hardly no meat. I went to an Emart and they only had one small 200 gram pack of Hanwoo ground beef. There's 3 small butchers in my town, but only one has beef while they mostly deal in pork and chicken. The other 2 that don't have beef have the red cow emblem on the front glass case, but meat is absent in an empty glass case. The one with beef only keeps one rump roast at a time that you can buy slices, chunks, or ground beef off of for 2,160 won per 100 grams. Sometimes they are out of beef so it's hit or miss. That comes out to $10 per pound, but you lose 100 grams in the grinder since they weigh it before grinding it so it's more like $13 a pound. I bet they recover that 100 grams stuck in the grinder after I walk out the door with my short sized pound of ground beef.

[cheeseface]

Apart from Costco where I get some cheep US beef?

[sojusucks]

I am salivating while thinking of delicious, tender beef while simultaneously thinking about what tons of cheap meat will do to the market.

By the way, isn't Chuseok "spelled" 추석 in Korean. I noticed at CostCo that a board had English and Korean (a special events plaque by the entrance) and noticed this spelling. If this is the case, then the pronunciation is closer to chusuk or chusuck (look at my user name to understand).

[tefain]

[Gollywog]

They had to get that dig in about e-coli, didn't they?

But are Koreans importing ground beef? Beef ground at the slaughterhouse is where the e-coli contamination occurs. If they import the slabs and grind them here, they aren't likely to get any contamination. Besides, if you cook the ground beef properly, you aren't going to get sick, anyway.

Say, what is up with this fascination with bones Koreans have? I have never seen such expensive bones in my life. They seem to think getting meat with the bones is something really exciting.

And fat. Gotta have lotsa fat, don't they? Why?

I saw some of the plastic wrapped "sets" of beef last year. 140,000 won for what looked like 2-3 kilos of fatty beef to me. How can beef be worth $20-$35 a pound?

I guess if it's expensive, it's gotta be good, right? Just leave the price sticker on.

And then there's the outrageously overpriced cheap scotch and brandy. But I guess that's another thread.

[cheeseface]

[Hyeon Een]

[wylies99]

No one knows for sure when/where it will be sold. If I should find it, I will post the location for others. HOPEFULLY other posters will do the same for the rest of us.



HOPEFULLY.

[nolegirl]

[sojusucks]

Hyeon Een wrote:

[sojusucks]

Need wonderful, tender, delicious beef at reasonable prices, which is what the imported American beef should do to the Korean beef market.

I can't wait.

Must stock up on Lea & Perrins, vegetables, potatoes (mashed potatoes would be great), etc.

[bangbayed]

It's Chuseok because according to the current Romanisation system:
ㅊ = Ch
ㅜ = u
ㅅ = s
ㅓ = eo
ㄱ = unpronounced because consonant endings in syllables (not followed by a vowel in the next syllable) are not aspirated.
As you can can see, the letter 'u' is already taken by the vowel ㅜ, which may cause some confusion sometimes but it's better than having a silly double-o 'oo' every time you want that sound.

Sorry to break your hopes of having fun with the language at its expense.