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The placement of Samyang Buldak-ro, designated alongside Usan-ro in Wonju, Gangwon Province / Courtesy of Wonju Metropolis
The worldwide success of spicy on the spot noodles is now mirrored in a metropolis map.
On Tuesday, the town of Wonju mentioned it designated a piece of Usan-ro in Usan-dong, the place Samyang Meals’ native manufacturing facility is positioned, as an honorary street named “Samyang Buldak-ro.”
The honorary identify was assigned to a 1,963-meter stretch from Usan-ro 1 to Usan-ro 264. The space was chosen to commemorate the 12 months 1963, when South Korea’s first on the spot noodles, Samyang Ramen, had been launched.
“The designation is completed to acknowledge Samyang Meals’ long-standing contributions to the native financial system,” metropolis officers mentioned, citing its function in job creation and sustained regional funding.
It’s the first honorary street identify designated in Wonju. The title of Samyang Buldak-ro, nonetheless, doesn’t change the authorized tackle, which is able to stay Usan-ro.
In South Korea, honorary street names are added to current streets to commemorate people or historic occasions, or to help enterprise actions and worldwide change, with out altering official addresses.
Samyang Buldak noodles / Courtesy of Samyang Meals
Established in 1989, Samyang Meals’ Wonju plant serves as a core manufacturing hub that manufactures noodles, snacks and sauces. Round 1,500 workers work throughout 4 Samyang associates within the metropolis, together with Samyang Meals, Samyang Flour Mills and Samyang Roundus.
Trying forward, Samyang Meals plans to construct a devoted liquid sauce manufacturing facility on its current Usan-dong web site by the primary half of 2027, a transfer anticipated to create round 90 new jobs.
A metropolis official mentioned the honorary street identify is meant to function “a constructive alternative for shared development” between Wonju and Samyang Meals.
This text from the Hankook Ilbo, the sister publication of The Korea Occasions, is translated by a generative AI system and edited by The Korea Occasions.
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