Nongshim heir slates meal replacement noodles as next growth engine Posted : 2021-04-08 07:55 Updated : 2021-04-08 11:08 From left, the late founder of Nongshim Shin Choon-ho and vice chairman of the company Shin Dong-won / Courtesy of Nongshim By Kim Jae-heun Nongshim Vice Chairman Shin Dong-won is facing up to the challenge to beef up his company's home meal replacement noodles items following the death of his father Shin Choon-ho. The younger Shin took over the lead position from his father who died of a chronic illness last month. Two days prior to the founder's death, the vice chairman said during a regular general shareholders' meeting that home meal replacements and functional health food would be the next growth engines of the company.