Specialized Producer of Kimchi
Introduction to CHAEJAYEON

Scale

• - Daily production: Current average daily production - 2.5 tons Maximum daily production - 5.0 tons
• - Factory size: HACCP certified kimchi production facilities - 670㎡ Packaging room and 8 refrigerators, etc. - 650 ㎡
• - Distribution: Provides kimchi products to over 60 organizations including middle/high schools and universities, hotels, restaurants, internet shopping malls, Coupang, and department stores (Seoul)

Features

• - Traditional Jeolla-style kimchi made wholly by the producer with carefully selected raw ingredients
• - Organizer of the Gimjang Festival and Gimjang Fair of Gwangju Metropolitan
• - Uses only domestically grown ingredients; designated as an eco-friendly and excellent food ingredient supplier by the Gwangju City Office of Education
• - Successfully completed 2 government-led technology development projects related to healthy kimchi
• - Undertook a new 5-year government-led technology development project in 2021 (development cost of KRW 3.3 billion)
• - Developed and put on the market vegan kimchi, napa cabbage kimchi with red snow crabs, and Amtak (anti-cancer) kimchi

Address

• - 290-18, Haseo-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju (Yangsan-dong)
• - Main number: +82-62-572-6002

Exterior view of the company

Product Images

Uses only domestically grown ingredients (100%)

Certifications

• Business license
• Business registration certificate
• Traditional food quality certificate (issued only to companies that use 100% domestically produced ingredients)
• HACCP certificate
  (napa cabbage kimchi)
• HACCP certificate
  (other types of kimchi)
• HACCP certificate
  (salted napa cabbages)
• CLEAN workplace certificate
• Prime Minister citation
• Presidential Award
  (Master of Kimchi Making No. 1)
• Certificate of Patent

Interior of the Company

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• Exhibition space
• Conference room
• Office
• Product image

Production Site Layout

Brief History

• · 2003 Established as Dume Kimchi Co., Ltd.
• · 2003 Won the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Prize
• · 2004 Awarded the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Prize
• · 2005 Designated as a company using only domestically grown ingredients
• · 2007 Led the Gwangju-Jeonnam Cooperation Project for Kimchi Industry Promotion
• · 2009 Exhibited products at the 8th World Korean Business Convention
• · 2010 Successfully completed an industry-academia cooperation project for food development with Chosun University
• · 2011 Participated in the product development area of the Premium Kimchi Industry Association's project
• · 2012 Selected as a food supplier for the 2012 Formula One World Championship