Homemade chili sauce is selling like crazy in Korea!

Under the influence of aging, South Korea's pepper planting area has dropped to a record low this year, CCTV Finance reported. Paprika is an essential ingredient in daily life in South Korea as well as in restaurant preparation. The two packages above weigh 1kg each, but the prices are quite different, according to reports. The chili powder on the right, made in South Korea, costs nearly 30,000 won, or 164 yuan; The chili powder on the left is made in China and the price is only one third of that of Korea.

Due to good quality and cost-effective, Chinese chili powder is favored in South Korea, and the number of South Korea's imported chili powder is increasing every year, and the current proportion of Chinese chili powder in the South Korean market has reached about 40%.
Last year, Korea imported more than 100,000 tons of chili paste from China, a record high. Chinese chili sauce is attracting the attention of the Korean condiment industry because it is affordable and easy to use. A number of well-known South Korean food companies have used Chinese-made chili sauces and mixed seasoning powder as raw materials, an investigation has revealed.

In this regard, some netizens said: "cabbage imports, hot sauce imports ah," "South Korea is proud of kimchi: China's cabbage and Chinese hot sauce."
It is worth noting that in addition to hot sauce, South Korea also imports a large number of kimchi from China, and data shows that 99% of South Korea's imported kimchi comes from China. South Korea has been hit by frequent meteorological disasters this year, after intense summer heat and heavy rain caused a shortage of summer cabbages in northeast Gangwon province, CCTV reported. In autumn, the mountains of Gangwon Province became hot and humid again due to abnormal weather, and soft rot spread rapidly in the autumn cabbage, causing roots to rot and the heart to turn yellow and wilt. The price of cabbage, which had been stable due to the decrease in production, has risen sharply recently.