With high economic level, South Korea has a high purchasing power for snacks and confectionery products, no wonder the food industry in Korea has grown rapidly. This condition was also arrested by the Indonesian food industry which wants to expand in the Korean market, GarudaFood one of them.

Kacang Garuda has routinely exported to South Korea with an average of 1-2 containers per month to Korea and marketed in Asian Mart that serves to workers, especially from Indonesia amounting to more than 40 thousand citizen. GarudaFood is currently being expanded to the newest product Gery Saluut Malkist who has a successful story in the country of Vietnam and Brunei.

Accompanied and facilitated by ITPC Busan, GarudaFood doing business matching with some importers with connections to major markets such as Lotte Korea, Emart and Homeplus and convenience stores such as GS25 and C & U in downtown Seoul and Busan.

The results of this business matching in the near future will soon be found Gery Saluut Malkist in major supermarket outlets and stores throughout South Korea said Novianty, International Sales Coordinator GarudaFood ITPC office while visiting Busan (22/6)

Data was held by ITPC Busan illustrates that in 2015 South Korea imported HS code 1905 (Bread, biscuits, wafers, cakes and patries) of the world worth US $ 289.8 Million and Indonesia as a supplier no 7 with a value of US $ 12 , 8 jt. Since 2011 imports from Indonesia had a positive trend. It is a reference that Indonesian products, especially snack increasingly favored by South Korean society.

Source ITPC Busan