In the eyes of most of us, South Korea should be a highly developed country. After all, it is a global leader in semiconductors, shipbuilding, communication technology, car manufacturing, etc., so what they eat and drink should be the best. However, South Korea should be the poorest among developed countries. Most ordinary people in South Korea are not as good at eating meat as most developing countries, such as China. There should be no problem eating meat in our country. You can eat as much as you want. Because the price of meat in Korea is too expensive.
Have you seen this
you see in Korean supermarkets? This is what I saw online. The price of 100g of meat is 9,800 won, and 190 won = 1 yuan. That is to say, 100g of meat is equal to 51 yuan, so 1 catty costs 250 yuan. Even the cheapest meat costs 120 yuan per pound. I don’t know Korean, but this meat looks like some offcut parts of a pig. This is why ordinary people in Korea cannot afford to eat large amounts of pork and chicken. Another reason is that South Korea's land area is too small to raise large quantities of pigs, chickens and ducks.
Countries that can afford large amounts of meat have two necessary characteristics. Either the land is vast and the population is sparse, allowing for large-scale animal husbandry. Either labor is cheap, and cheap labor can be used for large-scale artificial breeding. If any of the above conditions are not met, the country's meat must be imported on a large scale to meet the needs of the domestic market, and the price will naturally be very high.
South Korea does not meet the above conditions, and naturally the price of meat is relatively high.
Although the livestock breeding industry is the second largest agricultural production field in South Korea after rice production, it mainly includes pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, etc. To develop large-scale animal husbandry, you need vast land areas to build pastures and farms, as well as land to produce feed. However, South Korea is a small and mountainous peninsula country. It is really not suitable for large-scale development of animal husbandry. For example, South Korea's pig industry only produces 15 million pigs per year, and the Guangxi Autonomous Region, which has a population similar to South Korea, produces almost 27 million pigs.
Due to factors such as the small size of the country, except for chicken and eggs, which can basically guarantee self-sufficiency, a large amount of pork needs to be imported every year to meet the demand of the domestic market. When the prices of raw materials, such as corn and soybean meal, rise in the international market, the price of pork in South Korea will be greatly affected. The cost of raising pigs for farmers is rising rapidly, so the meat will naturally be particularly expensive.
Also, Korean chicken and eggs are also affected by rising feed prices and avian influenza , and the cost of raising chickens has increased. Bird flu has occurred in many places in South Korea, resulting in a shortage of chicken and egg supplies and rising prices, which has boosted the consumption of pork, thereby increasing the demand for pork. As a result, there was a serious shortage of supply in the pork market, and prices rose rapidly. The market price of pork in South Korea in May this year was 284 won per 100 grams of pork belly, which is equivalent to about 15 yuan in RMB, and 75 yuan per catty, which is a 20% increase from last month. It is known as the Golden Five. Hua, I can’t afford this kind of pork anyway, it’s even better than imported Chilean cherries. That's something only rich people can afford.
Korean super expensive barbecue
It is not easy for ordinary people in Korea to eat meat
This was in 2017, in Busan , a piece of beef and a table of kimchi cost about 1,500 yuan
There was a lot of fried chicken in Jeju Island In a small shop, it only costs 20 or 30 yuan to eat a full meal.
I just checked and found that the average salary in South Korea is 17,000. With such prices, can it be called easy?
At least I went to Nantong to eat out. For ordinary barbecue restaurants, you really don’t need to look at the prices.
One detail is that at that time, there was a table of Koreans drinking in a barbecue restaurant, all wearing white shirts. There was a young man among them, who had just joined the job or something like that. He stood up, nodded and bowed, and toasted to everyone else at the table one by one. It's not a Chinese wine-table toasting, but a very humble toast where he stands alone while everyone else sits.
After all, what is there to brag about in this kind of life?
