Daesang

Since being founded in 1956, Daesang Corporation has been striving for the past century to realize its vision of creating a happy future through a healthy food culture. Daesang specializes in fermentation and is the leading total food company in Korea with its annual sales of about one trillion KRW with 3,000 employees and 25 subsidiaries domestically and abroad.

Through its successful development of Korea's first Glutamic Acid production technology from fermentation, Daesang Corporation virtually opened the first chapter of Korea's bioindustry, and is rated as the bio-fermentation company with a global competitiveness through its development of the manufacturing technologies for 20 different kinds of various amino acids and nucleotides such as MSG, L-phenylalanine and L-glutamine.

By applying the accumulated technologies from fermentation to processed foods, the company is leading the way in creating an abundant and healthy food culture for customers by producing the traditional paste assorts such as: Soonchang Red Pepper Paste, the total seasonings Gamchimi and Matnawa, seasoning assorts such as Matsunsang\u2014which is a third generation seasoning using natural ingredients\u2014vinegars represented by Masinun Hongcho, agricultural and marine foods (salt-fermentations, western foods, frozen foods and meat processed foods), all centering on chungjungone, the representative total food brand of Korea.