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[wylies99]

Hanwoo` market to up access in Jan.
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/


Premium-grade Korean beef, or "hanwoo," can be conveniently accessed, and at a discount rate, in front of apartment complexes in Seoul and its surrounding satellite cities as of January, the government said yesterday.

The Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said yesterday that it will set up makeshift hanwoo sales markets in 381 neighborhoods so households can make direct purchases at 30 percent less than what it would cost at retail outlets. The ministry plans to hold the so-called "traveling beef market" about 17,306 times a year.

The government`s move comes as distribution of U.S. beef imports picks up pace since leading discount-store chains began selling the cheaper meat last week. Korea was the world`s third-largest consumer of American beef before a confirmed case of mad cow disease prompted a full import ban in December 2003. U.S. beef costs about 50 percent less than hanwoo, and many Koreans like the quality and taste.

So far, its demand has exceeded that of Australian beef and hanwoo.

The ministry`s plan will call for preparing 100 meat distribution trucks. The initiative, to be taken in cooperation with Nonghyup and the Korea Federation of Meat Purveyors, will call for the government to provide 5 billion won, or 50 percent, of the total estimated costs for the trucks.

The relevant Nonghyup and Korea meat federation offices managing the meat market in their respective local neighborhoods will be responsible for the other half of the investment.

By Yoo Soh-jung


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2008.12.05

[wylies99]

[PohangCanuck]

So to be clear on all this. The Korean government finally gets around to importing American beef, despite the violent protestations of ignorant masses. It does better then they had expected and their response to this is to shell out 50 billion won on beef-mobiles to promote what seems to be a second rate product.
Good thing there isn't an economic crisis or anything going on. Otherwise a move like that would seem kinda dumb.

[Donald Frost]

Wow!!

Are any of you guys or gals able to discern the difference in taste between Korean, Aussie, and the U.S. stuff?

DF

[ED209]

They should have spent the money on improving existing meat wagons rather than more blue trucks to wake everyone up.

[Xuanzang]

I shudder to think about the hygiene of these beefmobiles.

[wylies99]

Only the drunkest, I mean finest adjoshis will be chosen to drive these vehicles.

[traxxe]

Great, just what I #@#%$@# need. Another god@#@#5 truck in my neighborhood rolling around with a loud speaker waking me up in the @#$% morning.

[Typhoon]

Man, I would be worried about food saftey in buying meat out of trucks. What next? Honestly. Is it that tough to walk to one of the 20 butchershops around apartment complexes to get meat? Will wasting money on trucks make a difference? The fact is Hanwoo doesn't meet WHO standards for meat saftey and is more expensive than meat that does. Nothing will change that until the gov't starts testing more sick cows and puts saftey standards in place to make Hanwoo safer. But doing that would anger the beef farmers. Man, what trump card do these farmers have that make the gov't cave into them everytime???? Wasting tax payers money to make a bunch of retarded protesters and farmers happy seems just stupid. I just don't understand this country most of the time.

[justaguy]

[bassexpander]

This will drive local beef markets to stock and sell more US Beef to compete.

Korean beef will no longer be profitable for them to sell.

Does anyone else see this backfiring?

[cheeseface]

[DrOctagon]

[CentralCali]

[justaguy]

I would like to see a roast beef truck. Something similar to the roast chicken trucks. That would be sweet.