Ramen

Korean food China under spell of Korean spicy instant noodles; Samyang leads  

South Korea’s spicy instant noodles are poised to captivate China, the world’s largest ramen market, with their shipments to the neighbo...

Food & Beverage Samyang Foods' Buldak Ramen gets K-food Safety certification

South Korea's Samyang Foods Co. said on Thursday its Buldak Ramen (hot chicken flavor ramyun) received the domestic production certification K-food ...

Korean food Korean ramen makers set sights beyond US to Latin America

Nongshim Co. and Samyang Foods Co., South Korea’s two largest ramen makers, are ramping up production to create and meet demand for their spic...

Food & Beverage Nongshim to build export-only ramen factory in Korea

South Korea’s instant noodle giant Nongshim Co. will build a local plant dedicated to producing ramen — or ramyun, as the company spells...

Korean food Samyang Roundsquare holds 'Buldak Ferry Party' in Denmark

Samyang Roundsquare, formerly known as Samyang Foods Group in South Korea, announced on Friday that it held a consumer event called the "Buldak Spic...

Korean food S.Korea's monthly ramen export surpasses $100 mn

The monthly export value of South Korea's ramen exceeded $100 million for the first time. According to the Korea Customs Service's trade statistics...

Korean stock market Samyang tops Korean ramen makers by market cap, beating Nongshim

South Korean food maker Samyang Foods Co., globally renowned for its Hot Chicken Flavor Ramen, saw its stock hit a record high on Friday after it de...

Korean food Korea’s ramen exports on course to reach $1 bn in 2024

South Korea’s instant ramen noodle exports soared to a record monthly high in February, data showed, on course to hit the $1 billion mark in 2...

Earnings Samyang’s power: Hot Chicken Flavor Ramen by daughter-in-law

Samyang Foods Co., a South Korean instant noodle maker, enjoyed record earnings last year thanks to increasing overseas sales of its global-hit Hot ...

Korean food Korean fried chicken: World's favorite K-food

In 2023, Korean-style fried chicken retained its crown as the most-loved Korean dish among global consumers, marking its fourth consecutive year a...

Korean food Samyang draws record-high sales on Singles' Day in China

South Korea's Samyang Foods Co. announced on Thursday its sales during China's largest shopping festival, Singles' Day (Nov. 11), reached a new re...

Korean food Samyang Foods launches TomYum Buldak Ramen in US

South Korea's Samyang Foods Co. announced on Friday it began to release the new export-exclusive product of Hot Chicken Flavor Ramen, or Buldak Rame...

Food & Beverage Samyang’s Hot Chicken Flavor Ramen sales exceed 5 bn

South Korea's Samyang Foods Co. announced on Friday that the cumulative sales of ramen with its Hot Chicken Flavor Ramen, or Buldak-bokkeum-myeon br...

Webtoons Naver Webtoon promotes K-ramen in Bangkok via pop-up store

South Korea's Naver Webtoon, along with major domestic players in the food industry, on Tuesday said it joined in Bangkok, Thailand, Boggle Boggle K...

Korean food Innocean opens K-ramen pop-up store in Bangkok

Innocean, a Hyundai Motor Group-affiliated advertising agency, announced on Wednesday that it has opened a South Korean ramen pop-up store in Bangko...

Food & Beverage S.Korea's Samyang Foods promotes Buldak Ramen in Hanoi

Samyang Foods Co., South Korea's leading food manufacturer, announced on Friday that it opened a promotional booth at the "K-Food Festival" held at ...

Food & Beverage S.Korea urges ramen makers to cut prices to ease inflation

South Korean instant noodle makers are considering price cuts for the first time in 13 years pressured by the government, which aims to further ease...

The KED View What’s the next K-sensation after rise of 60-year-old K-ramen?  

It was not easy for latecomer Samyang Foods Co. to come up with a recipe for its own instant ramen noodle 60 years ago when Japanese rival Nissin ...

Food & Beverage S.Korean ramen's exports reach new heights amid K-content boom

Riding the wave of the K-content craze, South Korean ramen's overseas status is soaring. In the first quarter of this year, the ramen export value e...

Food & Beverage S.Korea's exports of instant noodles exceed $800 mn mark in 2022

South Korea's exports of instant noodles such as ramen last year exceeded $800 million to break an all-time record.Export data released on Thursday ...

Food & Beverage Jin from BTS becomes new face of Ottogi Jin Ramen 

South Korea’s food manufacturing giant Ottogi Co. has selected Jin from K-pop band BTS as its new face of the uber-popular Jin Ramen line.&nbs...

Korean food Ramen wars: Nongshim caught out by rising Ottogi

Ottogi Co. is emerging as a formidable rival to Nongshim Co. in South Korea's instant noodle market, becoming the most popular ramen for the fifth w...

Batteries Korea ramen packet maker inks $1 bn battery material deal

A South Korean instant noodle packet maker has secured a $1 billion deal to supply battery materials to a joint venture between General Motors Co. a...

Food & Beverage Samyang Foods' Hot Chicken Flavor Ramen sales surpass 4 bn

Samyang Foods Co. announced Monday it has sold more than 4 billion packets of its uber-popular Hot Chicken Flavor Ramen, or buldak-bokkeum-myeon, to...

Corporate bonds Korea’s Hot Chicken Flavor Ramen maker to issue first bond

South Korea’s Samyang Foods Co., the maker of the Hot Chicken Flavor Ramen, plans to issue its first corporate bonds ever as it is expanding b...

Food & Beverage Food triggers next phase of global K-culture craze

The ongoing global fever over South Korean music and entertainment content is driving the rapid growth of the country’s packaged food manufact...

Shareholder activism NPS set to up pressure on spicy Korean ramen exporter

The National Pension Service has signaled a possible exercise of shareholder rights against South Korea’s No. 3 instant noodle maker Samyang Foo...