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South Koreans like coffee more frequently than kimchi rice every day.

Published: 2026-05-18 Author: World Gafei

Last Updated: 2026/05/18, According to a report by Taiwan's Central News Agency on January 16, South Korea's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Animal products and the Agricultural and Aquatic Food Circulation Commune released a report on January 16, showing that South Koreans love coffee and drink 12.2 times a week. The frequency of drinking coffee even exceeds that of cabbage, kimchi and rice, a representative diet in South Korea. According to reports, the survey report shows that South Koreans eat the order most frequently every week.

According to a report by Taiwan's "Central News Agency" on January 16, South Korea's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Animal products and the Agricultural and Aquatic Food Circulation Commune released a report on January 16, showing that South Koreans love coffee and drink 12.2 times a week. The frequency of drinking coffee even exceeds the frequency of cabbage, kimchi and rice, the representative diet in South Korea.

According to reports, the survey report shows that the single food type that Koreans consume most frequently is coffee, which is consumed 12.2 times a week, followed by cabbage and kimchi 11.9 times, candy 9.7 times, miscellaneous grain rice 9.6 times, other kimchi 4.6 times, and so on.

The average person in South Korea drinks coffee nearly twice a day, which has exceeded the frequency of eating cabbage, kimchi and rice.

It is reported that in terms of coffee bean imports and imports, the import volume in 2013 was 100000 7122 tons, an increase of 11 percent from 97000 tons five years ago. Over the same period, imports also increased by 36 per cent from US $234 million to US $317.7 million. Coffee beans from Vietnam, Brazil and Colombia accounted for 64.7% of the total imports.

South Korea's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Animal products said that although the Korean instant coffee market is shrinking, products with tastes and forms such as cappuccino, vanilla latte, paper cup instant coffee and convenient ground coffee have come out one after another to actively adapt to changes in market demand. (trainee Editor: Wang Changli Review: Tan Liya)

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