Samyang Foods' Hot Chicken Flavor Ramen sales surpass 4 bn

South Korea's pioneer instant noodle maker exports nine flavors of the spicy ramen product to some 90 countries worldwide

Samyang Foods makes nine permanent flavor varieties of Hot Chicken Flavor Ramen (Courtesy of Samyang Foods)
Samyang Foods makes nine permanent flavor varieties of Hot Chicken Flavor Ramen (Courtesy of Samyang Foods)
Soo-Jung Ha 1
Aug 02, 2022 (Gmt+09:00) agatha77@hankyung.com
Food & Beverage


Samyang Foods Co. announced Monday it has sold more than 4 billion packets of its uber-popular Hot Chicken Flavor Ramen, or buldak-bokkeum-myeon, to date.

The figure is more than half the world's population. 

Samyang launched the spicy instant noodle product in April 2012.

Including the original flavor inspired by a Korean spicy stir-fried chicken dish, there are nine different flavors in the lineup, including creamy Carbo Hot Chicken and Chinese food-inspired varieties. 

Accumulated sales hit 1 billion units in 2017, 2 billion in 2019 and 3 billion in 2021. 

Samyang exports the instant noodles to some 90 countries worldwide. 

The company exported 100 million won ($76,489) worth of the spicy noodles in 2017 and expects the figure to exceed 400 million won ($305,937) this year. 

“We plan to push out products catered to overseas consumers' preferences and establish local offices to expand our presence in target markets,” a Samyang Foods employee told The Korea Economic Daily. 

Samyang Foods was South Korea’s first instant ramen noodle maker.

Write to Soo-Jung Ha at agatha77@hankyung.com
Jee Abbey Lee edited this article.
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