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Article: Agriculture ministry seeks resolution of Chinese kimchi issue.
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- YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea
- Article date:
- June 8, 2005
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SEOUL, June 8 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry will hold a meeting Friday to resolve a recent dispute over kimchi imports from China, the ministry said Wednesday. At the meeting, Agriculture and Forestry Park Hong-soo will meet with local kimchi producers, distributors and focus groups to discuss ways of protecting the domestic kimchi industry, the ministry said. Farming groups in South Korea have been voicing their discontent with a local discount outlet for selling Chinese kimchi for half the price of the domestic product.Kimchi is a spicy, nutritious dish generally made from fermented cabbage and radish that accompanies almost ...