묵은지 저장사업에 관한 연구 : 묵은지 소비규모 추산 및 저장사업의 타당성 여부를 중심으로

A Study on Storage Service for Meukeunji : Focus on Estimating Consumption Market Size and Evaluating Validity of Storage Service for Meukeunji

Napa cabbage is a representative excess-supply vegetable. To adjust unstable supply-and-demand, the government considers a storage service for longterm fermented Kimchi (Meukeunji), which extends storage periods of napa cabbage by commercializing Meukeunji under market mechanism. However, associated analyses are impeded due to lack of empirical data. We focus on estimating consumption market size of Meukeunji using survey data gathered from consumers and restaurants. Additionally, we calculate annual storage expense and evaluate economic validity of the commercialization by comparing storage-expense with disposal-expense for napa cabbage under various hypothetical scenarios concerning harvest rates and storage periods for Meukeunji. Results show that the commercialization of Meukeunji is economically infeasible unless storage-expense is paid from at least 4.44 times to at most 18.49 times than disposal-expense by the government.