The agar plant in South Korea is rushing around for the harvest season

Published 2021년 1월 19일

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The agar plant in Miryang-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, Korea, is currently preparing for the harvest season. The plant is busy moving radish to dry, which had been frozen and melted for about a month to produce agar. This coagulated product is then boiled and squeezed out. The Miryang area is the main production area for agar in Korea, due to the large daily temperature difference between day and night, which is ideal for freezing and melting the radish. The local Hansan plant has the largest production capacity in the East, and the products are traditionally exported to Japan.

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(Miyang = Yonhap News) The agar plant located in Sannae-myeon, Miryang-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, is rushing around for the harvest season. At the plant on the 19th, employees were busy moving to dry the radish, which had been frozen and melted for about a month to produce agar. Umu is a coagulated product that is squeezed through the process of boiling and boiling agara harvested from the sea. Umu is eaten as soybean soup in ice water with soybean flour, or as a raw material for various foods such as yokan. The Miryang area is the main production area for agar in Korea, boasting a 100-year tradition, as the best place to freeze and melt rain radish due to the large daily temperature difference between day and night. The local Hansan plant has the largest production capacity in the East. ...

Source: Yna