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AWarWithoutGunshots:
ⓒnavdanyainternational
SeedWar
ByShinJun-seo
AssociateEditorofSocialSection
hat makes the Christmas mood? It will definitely be a
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Christmas tree with colorful decorations. The size of the
Christmas tree market is about 500 billion won ($39.10
million) in the U.S. alone, but the seed of this Christmas tree originally
camefromKorea.ErnestWilson,anAmericanbotanist,tooktheseedsof
aKoreanfir,whichisnativetoMt.HallaonJejuIsland,intheearly20th
century, and registered them in the United States after improving them.
NowKoreaneedstopayfortheseedoftheKoreanfir.
▲SeedofChristmastreeoriginallycomesfromKorea.
More than 80 percent of onions, carrots, and tomatoes grown in Korea, and more than half of radishes, cabbages, and peppers
are owned by foreign companies, and 90 percent of flowers and fruits are foreign species. It is absurd that the seeds of what we
considertobe“domestic”produceareoftenforeign.Seedroyaltiesstoodatonlythreebillionwon($2.34million)in2000buthave
increasedsignificantlyto14billionwon($10.94million)recently.Whiletheseedindustryisexpandingbeyondjustbeingameans
of crop cultivation to a high value-added business, is Korea establishing a proper survival strategy in the era of seed war? The
Argusintendstoexaminethephenomenon,causes,andprospectsofKorea’spoorseedsovereignty.
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