Last year, seaweed became the first marine product to achieve exports of 1 trillion won (790 million dollars), and has emerged as Korea's representative marine product. However, as exports increased, the problem of skyrocketing domestic seaweed prices also arose. This is why we have seen the strange phenomenon of importing seaweed from China, which dominates the global market. Recently, concerns have been growing about the development of the seaweed industry due to the climate crisis, aging of aquaculture farms, and lack of new investment by small and medium-sized businesses. Amid the warning signals for the development of the seaweed industry, the government announced a plan to strengthen the competitiveness of the seaweed industry at the end of last month.