According to reports daily coffee news, Korean coffee shops increased to 15,000 last year, nine times the number in 2006, and Starbucks has 554 branches in Korea.
A song Gangnam Style sings the trend of Korean people's pursuit of wealth and fashion, and drip coffee bag has become more and more advanced, the price is comparable to that of New York, and a cup of coffee for 10,000 won is not too expensive. South Korea is the fastest growing Arabica coffee market in Asia, which has attracted the attention of Brazilian coffee bean exporters. According to reports, as South Korea's exports of electronic products have soared in the past decade, the demand for premium coffee has also continued to increase. South Korea is driving the trend of Asian coffee love. Brazilian coffee bean exporters have noticed this trend and hope that South Korea can become a springboard for them to enter other Asian markets, including China. Opening up the Korean market in the current sluggish coffee bean market.
Da Silva, who is in charge of coffee business in Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture, pointed out that Korean coffee bean roasters are willing to offer higher prices than the United States in order to obtain high-quality coffee beans. He said that for every 60 kilograms of a bag of coffee beans, the price when sold in South Korea is more than three times that in the United States.
Braga, chairman of the Brazilian Coffee Export Council, said that in the next five years, Brazil's exports of coffee beans to South Korea could grow by 4.5% per year. In contrast, the annual growth rate for Japan, the largest coffee market in Asia, may be less than 1%. He said: "South Korea pays attention to brand, origin and quality. This is why South Korea is now regarded as an important coffee market." Brazil's market share in South Korea is about 20%, ranking second, second only to Vietnam Robes. 30% of tower coffee.
Brazils sales of Korean green coffee beans last year increased by 19% compared to 2009, reaching 326,000 bags, which is still far behind the 2.6 million bags sold to Japan. However, Sato, president of the Brazilian Coffee Association, believes that South Korea has the potential to reach the same scale within five years as soon as possible.
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