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Largest S.Korean Food Expo Opens

An expo to promote the high quality of South Korean food and to provide a mid-to long-term vision for the South Korean food industry will be held from Wednesday for four days.

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The 2011 Korea Food Expo, which is the largest Korean exhibition on food, will operate under the theme K-Food Under the Global Spotlight. There will be Korean cuisine cooking contests for foreigners and an exhibition on healthy, nutritious foods.

Some 700 food industry officials from 33 nations will take part. There will be various forums under the theme of Asia's role for the global food industry.

The Food, Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries Ministry says the event was prepared to promote the value of K-Food to other nations and to gain popularity overseas, just as Korean pop culture has taken root globally.

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