date:May 27, 2014
Volatile is one way to describe the pork market in South Korea, according to Jihae Yang, Director, US Meat Export Federation-South Korea.
For the past several years, US pork exports to this country have experienced peaks and valleys driven, to a great extent, by changing market conditions within Korea.
The first quarter of 2014 has been promising, with US pork sales to Korea climbing 15 per cent in volume and 21 per cent in value to 40,143 metric tons (88.5 million pounds) valued at $116.2 mil