K-chicken products, pioneering export routes in the UK following the EU!

The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (Minister Song Mi-ryeong) and the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (Minister Oh Yoo-kyung) announced that the export of heat-treated chicken products such as samgyetang, frozen chicken, and dumplings has become possible to the UK following the European Union (EU).

After completing export hygiene and quarantine negotiations for heat-treated chicken products with the European Union in December last year, Korea inquired about the possibility of exporting to the United Kingdom, which left the European Union in January 2020, in January of this year and received hygiene and quarantine requirements from the United Kingdom in May. received guidance on

The government continued to communicate with the British government in close cooperation with the Korean Embassy in the UK and the British Embassy in Korea, taking advantage of the international strategic partnership established through the Korea-UK summit and Korea-UK free trade agreement (FTA) improvement negotiations. In addition, we carefully reviewed the hygiene and quarantine requirements for importing heat-treated chicken products from the UK and completed export procedures, including preparing the export certificate form.

Information on the UK’s food industry and import regulation trends was also provided to help the industry expedite exports. Accordingly, export companies are preparing to export various heat-treated chicken products such as frozen chicken and dumplings to the European Union in May. The UK is the second-largest economy in Europe, and the spread of K-Food is expected to accelerate further.

Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Song Mi-ryeong said, “As the export of K-food expands, the horizon of ‘Gastrodiplomacy’ is expanding. Starting with samgyetang, which was first exported to the European Union in May of this year, frozen chicken, chicken dumplings, “We will actively support online and offline promotions, discovering new buyers, opening distribution stores, and expanding overseas joint logistics centers to promote various K-foods such as chicken and ham and Korean food culture,” he said.

Minister of Food and Drug Safety Oh Yoo-kyung said, “The UK is showing great interest in K-food, to the extent of listing the word ‘chicken and beer’ in the Oxford Dictionary, and this export of K-chicken products is of great significance.” “We will continue to communicate with relevant organizations and the industry through various channels to resolve export difficulties and do our best to continuously create regulatory diplomacy results that the industry can feel,” he added.

The government will continue to pioneer new export markets through gastronomy diplomacy and regulatory diplomacy, publicize the excellence of the domestic food safety management system, and continue to support more domestic food companies to enter the global market and achieve high export performance. It will.

Editor. Seyeong Hong