South Korea resumes sales of US bone-in

South Korean stores resumed selling the US bone-in beef Monday (August 11) after a nearly five-year suspension on the product.

The Nerp Corp, which imported the US bone-in beef shipment on July 29, said seven meat stores in Seoul and Busan, along with Gyeonggi, South Chungcheong and South Gyeongsang provinces, have started selling 1.47 tonnes of short ribs, chuck ribs, rib finger intercostals.

The company said that a restaurant in Seoul will start serving US beef on Tuesday (August 12), while a shipment of 180 tonnes of ribs is expected to arrive in Busan late this month.

South Korea has resumed US beef imports in mid-April. In June, South Korea and the US reached additional agreements over the beef imports that all US beef should be from cattle under 30 months old.