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Oct. 4, 2023![](https://chilealimentos.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/platos_korea_699px.jpg)
Corea del Sur: más de US$ 131 mil millones alcanzan ventas de alimentos en Sector HORECA
The Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional (HRI) food service sector has shown signs of recovery after going through sales fluctuations during the pandemic. In 2021 (latest data available), sales1 of the HRI food service sector reached 150.76 trillion KRW (131.7 billion USD2 ), up 7.77 percent from 2020 and up 4.41 percent from 2019. Official statistics for more recent years are not available yet, but it is predicted that the sales figures have reached close to the pre-pandemic level as most eateries have fully reopened and consumer traffic has been on the rise.
In 2022, Koreans’ monthly per capita spending3 on HRI reached 162,345 KRW (141.83 USD), up 18.07 percent from 2021 and up 26.10 percent from 2020. 14.33 percent of total consumption expenditure of Korean households was spent on dining-out, which accounted for nearly half of their food and beverage expenditures (48.15 percent in 2022, up 4.25 percentage points from 2021) indicating that people started dining out again and engaging in social gatherings over meals as social distancing restrictions were lifted. In 2022, the total number of people employed across all industries went up by 2.99 percent from the previous year4 . The HRI sector al
so showed an increase of 4.00 percent compared to 2021, but it is still lower.
Full report here: http://chilealimentos.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Food-Service-Hotel-Restaurant-Institutional_Seoul-ATO_Korea-Republic-of_KS2023-0016.pdf
USDA/September 27, 2023
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