South Korea’s second-largest city, Busan, entices tourists with its delectable cuisine, vibrant beaches and dazzling cityscape. However, few visitors know that the city’s main attraction used to be its hot springs. Oncheonjang Station, a stop on Busan metro's Line No.1, is wher e the origin of the city’s history as a hot spring destination lies. With the bathhouses and hotels that once adorned .
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Amid soaring food costs, prices of ramen, Koreans’ most favoured instant food and a common low-cost meal option, are set to increase next month, in another blow to customers already grappling with persistent inflation. Koreans consumed the most instant noodles per capita in the world in 2020.
Published April 4, 2021, 2:00 PM
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Shin Choon-ho, founder of South Korea’s leading noodle brand Nongshim, died Saturday, March 27, 2021. The company said Shin’s passing was due to a chronic illness. He was 91.
The late chairman was born in 1930 in Ulsan, South Korea. He had 8 siblings with his oldest brother being Shin Kyuk-ho, founder of retail conglomerate Lotte. In 1965, Shin Choon-ho founded Nongshim then under the name Lotte Food Industrial Company. The name was changed in 1978 to Nongshim, which means “farmer’s heart.”
Nongshim remains to be the largest instant noodles and snack company in South Korea, leading the development of its culinary culture along the way. Today, the company houses several product categories including Chapaguri, Shin Light Air Dried Noodles, Soo Air Dried Noodles, Just Noodles, Shin Black Bowl, Air-dried Noodles, Vegan, Meal Noodle, Bowl Noodle, and of course, the Shin Brand.