From traditional food to advanced agricultural technology...Gwangju Food Exhibition Opens!

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A food exhibition opened in Gwangju where you can see traditional and modern foods at a glance, and furthermore, future foods.

There is also an exhibition and sales exhibition where you can enjoy the deep tea culture.

Reporter Kim Bum-hwan reports.

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Clean Sea Wando, Jeollanam-do's representative specialty kelp,
In order to increase kelp consumption, which accounts for 70% of the nation's production,
Wando has developed a variety of processed products.

This time, kelp came out as soju in collaboration with a fisheries cooperative and a local brewer.

[Kim Gil-won / Managing Director of Geumil Suhyup in Wando, Jeollanam-do: We are launching kelp liquor, and our Wando Geumil Suhyup has joined us to become Wando's representative liquor. Therefore, the image of kelp will become a fishery product that has gradually gained an important place on the table. I think the good consumption of fishermen who produce kelp and the people who enjoy it will play a role in protecting the Earth.

Traditional food experiences are in full swing at the largest food competition venue in Honam.

It's the fun of making and eating the food of our ancestors.

[Lee Soo-hee / Gwangju Food Exhibition Visitors: It was really fun to experience making rice cakes with friends while experiencing many specialties from other regions.]

Stores that are especially popular with the MZ generation on the Internet have also brought their own unique taste of food.

Long lines will also continue in the "Moonlight Alliance" section of Dalgubeol Daegu and Bitgoeul Gwangju.

It also presents a space where you can see the future agriculture, the birthplace of food, at a glance.

A total of 300 companies are participating in this year's Gwangju Food Exhibition.

[Lee Sang-gap / Gwangju Metropolitan City Deputy Mayor for Culture and Economy: The 'food tech' industry is also a field that can be combined with AI (artificial intelligence), which our Gwangju Metropolitan City has strengths in. In that sense, we are very strong....]

The Gwangju Food Exhibition, where you can see and experience everything about tea culture, such as various tea and tea ceremony supplies, runs until Sunday.

I'm Kim Bum Hwan of YTN.