South Korean government ministry overseeing agriculture, food policy, rural development, and farmland regulation nationwide.
South Korea's agriculture ministry survey found 20.1% of general restaurants averaged under 10,000 won per customer in 2025, down from 23.4%. Average operating margin slipped to 8.8% from 9.1%, while GS25 ready-meal and McDonald's Korea sales grew at double-digit rates.
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Korea imported 1.12 million Brazilian eggs at three to four times the US price, out of 133.24 million through September. Weighted by price, Brazil is a few per cent of the egg bill, so any verdict on the subsidy rests on American eggs.
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Eight of nine conglomerate caterers feeding South Korea's military never gave to the farm and fishery fund, ministry data shows. Rep. Suh Sam-suk, who released the data, wants donations counted when these defense-funded contracts are awarded.
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South Korea had 19,507 beer pubs in August, 8.9% fewer than a year earlier, National Tax Service data show. Makers earned about 1.7% more per litre last year as shipments hit a 27-year low, so Koreans' retreat from drinking is costing venues more than brewers.
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Rep. Song Ok-joo plans a bill letting designated nonprofits buy and lease Korean farmland after prices fell 34.3% and trading halved since 2021. Buying all the land flagged in July's survey would cost about 93 times this year's Farmland Bank budget.
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Lee So-young told merchants in Suwon that more voucher benefit should reach traditional markets, and that a plan is coming within days. Her ministry had weighed a 900 billion won cut to 2027 issuance.
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A nationwide survey flagged 2.84 million parcels as suspect. The agriculture ministry will now route the customary cases into farmland bank trusteeship, and a special measures act setting the terms is due by year-end.
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Korea's Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission analysed 2,184 startup complaints filed over twelve months and found offers of paid access among the most common, with monthly volumes running 36.5% above the earlier pace.
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Labour cost sets the pressure and device payback sets the timing. A minimum wage compounding at about 3.4% a year has coincided with a 42.8% jump in stores with nobody in them. The available counts disagree by a third.
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Seoul will take cash equity in KEPCO for the first time since its 1989 listing, because a utility carrying 210.7 trillion won of debt cannot borrow fast enough to wire the fabs.
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