<Anchor>

A weekend ahead of the friendly economy, Kwon Ai and reporter consume consumption trend. Kwon, come on. (Good morning.) You talked about rice cakes and rice cakes last week, but this week, did you investigate the popularity of national snacks?

<Reporter>

I also know more about Tteokbokki, so I became more curious and found out that there is something more out of our gravy streets where my hands are going and I was wondering what is going on.

One thing I have to say first is that snacks are usually streets, food stalls. It is difficult to accurately compare its popularity.

Therefore, the method used by the Agriculture and Fisheries Food Distribution Corporation, which regularly grasps the status of these processed foods, excludes stalls and restaurants that are hard to estimate or can not be estimated by retail stores, menus nationwide.

I am counting the sales of snacks sold at all convenience stores and supermarkets, marts, and department stores in the country. This week, I contacted the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Distribution Corporation on how much of Korea's representative snacks sold from 2016 to September this year.

The first thing that stands out in the results is that the ramen is rampant. Our people are still the most ramen-loving people in the world.

One person is eating 76 bags of boiled rice a day, five bags a day. Next to us are Vietnamese and Indonesian people who often eat ramen noodles, but these people barely surrender 50 bags a year.

I see how big the love of ramen in Korea. However, for the first time in history, sales dropped slightly in the last year. If you look at sales until September this year, it will be just like last year.

<Anchor>

It seems like you are looking at ramen noodles as a snack. Those who eat ramen noodles may be a little bit angry. Anyway, I wonder why these results come out in a country where new products are poured in the same case every year and there are people.

<Reporter>

I still like it very much, but it seems to be a little off because I have a lot of delicious things and variety. If you look at this time, it is a retort, which can be classified as tteokbokki, fish cake, and bread and rice cake, cake, coffee, and other simple homemade meals.

Of these, the last three items we have eaten were only the most popular items, the chocolate pie, and the bread. Ramen's annual sales fell from 2.1 trillion won to 2 trillion won. It is still the top of the floating.

Choco pie, which I find so much, does not count together with other sweets and sees it separately, but it has been sold down to 320 billion won, which was 310 billion won in 2016.

However, these two items do not necessarily have to be packed when you think about health, but they are typical items that you usually think are delicious.

Of course, we are unfair. There is more salt in Kalguksu than ramen. There are many candies that are higher in calories than chocolate pie. I also talk about these things, but the images do.

So, it is analyzed that it is less sold than before in the atmosphere of less stimulation and less snack. And it is the most commonly eaten bread, but I also eat a little less bread that I think is a carbohydrate lump.

Other sweets, biscuits, snacks such as regular bag confections, other breads except bread, and snacks such as coffee in drinking water are only slightly increased.

This is an irritating situation in the industry, as the original market remains. It's not selling so well either. It is stagnant. I can tell you this.

So what's the bigger, the more prominent is the retort, the simple homage. I have been looking for more and more tteokbokki and fish paste last week.

<Anchor>

I have been talking to you for two weeks in a row, and if you go to the mart, you can easily eat something like Sundae. What about sundial?

<Reporter>

I was wondering in a moment. I like it. However, Sundae sells at Mart, but it is not an item that can be seen separately until now, so I made statistics with these things slightly differently.

The most recent estimate is the production scale in 2014. This is a little less than 200 billion won per year. It is a little less than a tteokbokki or fish cake. However, the growth is still not as popular as tteokbokki or fish cake, and it is still a popular snack.