US Beef Imports to South Korea Continue To Soar; Now World’s 3rd Largest US Beef Importer

This news just causes me to smirk a bit considering the anti-US beef nonsense I saw happen in 2008:

US beef imports increased significantly as South Koreans turned away from their expensive local beef hanwoo, industry data showed on July 14.

US beef imports increased by 25.7 percent from January to May this year from the same period last year, to reach 61,062 tons, according to a report by the National Agriculture Cooperative Federation, better known as NongHyup.

South Korea became the third largest beef importer in the world during the period, after Japan and Mexico.   [Korea Herald]

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