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| Baek Jong-won. Photo | Sports Seoul DB |
*[Sports Seoul | Reporter Won Seong-yun]* The CEO of The Born Korea, Baek Jong-won, finds himself in a tight spot. Following the controversy over ‘Bbaek Ham’ and his company’s stock price being halved, he is now embroiled in a farmland law violation controversy. The good image he built from ‘Street Food Fighter’ is collapsing, raising interest in whether Baek Jong-won will directly address and clarify these suspicions. If controversies continue, his appearance on Netflix’s ‘Black and White Chef 2,’ set to air in the latter half of the year, appears uncertain.
On the 10th, Asia Today reported that The Born Korea’s Baekseok factory in Yesan, Chungnam, is allegedly violating farmland law by selling products made with foreign raw materials in an agricultural promotion zone.
The media claimed, “The Born Korea is operating Baekseok Factory within an agricultural promotion zone where they produce soy sauce with improved Chinese meju soybean paste, foreign soybeans, and wheat as raw materials,” and pointed out, “According to Article 29 of the Enforcement Decree of the Farmland Act, food processing plants in agricultural promotion zones are exceptionally permitted to operate only if they process domestic agricultural products.”
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