<Anchor> It
's friendly economy time.
Reporter Han Ji-yeon is here.
Today (18th) is news related to ramen.
<Reporter>
Yes, anchor Choi, how many times a week do you eat ramen?
<Anchor>
Well, it seems like there are times when I don't eat at all.
When I eat it, I eat it once or twice, and it seems like that.
<Reporter>
You seem to eat almost average, but the average Korean eats 1.7 times a week, about twice a week, which is quite a lot.
Ramen can be said to be the soul food of Koreans to the extent that several songs with the theme of ramen were produced like this. By gender, men ate more, 1.8 times a week, and women 1.5 times a week.
On the other hand, satisfaction with ramen was given more generously by women.
On a 5-point scale, women scored 0.1 points higher than men.
In my case, I try not to eat ramen often because of diet or health considerations.
However, it is very delicious to eat without patience, and it is interpreted that this is the difference in satisfaction that comes from this.
The frequency of eating by age group was highest for men in their 20s and 50s, twice a week.
For women, those in their 30s and 40s had the highest score of 1.6.
Lunch was the most popular time to eat ramen.
Dinner and late at night, which are the most popular times for ramen, also had a high ratio.
In addition, nearly 11% of the respondents answered that they are looking for breakfast.
<Anchor>
By the way, are you saying that ramen is now selling a little less in Korea and a lot more abroad?
<Reporter>
Yes, the size of the domestic ramen market last year was 2.1 trillion won, down 6.7% from the previous year, while exports increased by 11.7% from the previous year to reach $670 million.
Based on the won-dollar exchange rate of 1,300 won, it amounts to 871 billion won.
Ramen exports have been breaking records for seven consecutive years since 2015. Originally, ramyun was thought of as a snack to overseas consumers, but Korean ramyun received attention as a meal and emergency food during the Corona crisis.
The influence of K-contents such as the YouTube Fire Chicken Challenge and the movie Parasite has also had a significant impact on the interest in Korean ramen.
On the other hand, we also have a growing interest in overseas ramen.
When I travel abroad, I used to buy some ramen from that country.
This is reflected in the income as well.
Last year, overseas ramen imports amounted to KRW 13.3 billion, a nearly 120% increase from the previous year.
<Anchor>
Still, if you look at it as a percentage rather than the amount, it seems that it was sold more abroad than it was less sold in Korea.
It seems fortunate.
Starting next year, the National Statistical Office will also announce how much the delivery cost has risen or fallen.
<Reporter>
Yes, the current restaurant price index includes delivery costs, and next year, we will announce two separate delivery costs, one for eating out with delivery, and another to find out how much the delivery cost has affected the price of eating out.
Even now, delivery costs for all 39 dining out items are not included.
We calculate the food service price index by including only some items with a high proportion of delivery, such as Jajangmyeon.
However, since the corona virus, the proportion of delivery in the restaurant industry is increasing, and there are times when the delivery fee is as high as the cost of food, so there is a controversy over whether this can be viewed as a pure eating out cost.
For example, the consumer price index rose 5.6% last month, but the rate of increase in the cost of eating out was 9%.
However, it was difficult to know exactly whether the increase in the cost of eating out was due to an increase in the cost of food ingredients or an increase in the delivery cost.
Therefore, there were many voices calling for a separate investigation to understand the proportion of delivery cost in the food service price, but the National Statistical Office said that it plans to announce the delivery cost index separately from next year after examining ways to separate the delivery cost from the existing food service price items. I did.