North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has attended a groundbreaking ceremony for the country's second offshore fish farm in the east coastal city of Rakwon and called for regional development, state media reported Saturday.
The Busan Cooperative Fish Market, which processes over 3,200 tons of fish daily, has commenced its first modernization project in 60 years, beginning with the demolition of old oil tanks.
Lee Hyun-ju, the public relations specialist at the National Museum of Korea who has worked there for 33 years, recently sat down for an interview with the JoongAng Sunday.
Nine of Soraepogu fish market's stores were caught tampering with their scales during a government examination on Monday.
Officials from Incheon’s Namdong District Office and local residents carry out a campaign on Tuesday at Soraepogu fish market to prevent vendors from overpricing the seafood and marine products and to stabilize consumer prices.
Noryangjin Fish Market in southern Seoul on Wednesday, a day before the second release of treated radioactive water from its ruined Fukushima nuclear powerplant.
"Despite government assurance of no scientific issues and our reassurances that we only sell seafood caught in our local waters, customers are unwilling to listen," said the head of the Seoho Conventional Market in Tongyeong, South Gyeongsang.
Officials from the Public Health and Environment Research Institute of Busan Metropolitan City put a bass into a plastic bag for a radioactivity test at a fish market in Busan on Thursday.
The Korean government and the PPP has agreed to ban seafood imports from Fukushima until the Korean public feels safe. Korea has banned import of seafood from eight prefectures, including Fukushima, since September 2013.
A fisheries safety institute under the South Gyeongsang local government ran a radiation level test for seafood with local residents in attendance at a fish market in Tongyeong, South Gyeongsang, on Tuesday.
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