Frozen food sales soar on more small households, heat wave
Aug 5, 2016
Frozen foods are gaining huge popularity in South Korea thanks to a rise in the number of households with one to two members and a prolonged heat wave, industry data showed Friday.Discount giant E-Mart said its sales of frozen alternative foods, including fried rice, rice with seasoned vegetables and noodles, jumped 75.8 percent in the January-July period from a year earlier.Of its own convenience food brand, sales of frozen foods shot up 55 percent on-year during the same period, far exceeding