"The NS Cookfest will be held in Iksan next year" 

NS Home Shopping maintains their Business Agreement 

with Iksan City and the National Food Cluster Support Center

The NS Home Shopping made an announcement on the 27th that it will sign a business agreement with Iksan City and the National Food Cluster Support Center to host 2020 NS Cookfest at 1 p.m. on the 3rd floor of the Yangjae aT Center in Seoul on the 30th.

The business agreement will include a promise to host the NS Cookfest, the largest culinary competition and festival in Korea for 12 years, starting in 2020 in the city of Iksan to promote the national food cluster and develop the food industry. To that end, the NS Home Shopping, Iksan City, and the National Food Cluster Support Center will work together in three parties and a work agreement ceremony will be held on the same day of NS Cookfest 2019 to exchange opinions on planning for the NS Cookfest event in 2020.

"NS Cookfest 2019" is the biggest food and culture festival in Korea that NS Home Shopping has hosted in order to "lead the people's health and food culture and contribute to the development of the food industry in Korea" through the discovery and popularization of healthy home recipes. A total of 14,000 people participated in the event, with 200 participants participating in the annual cooking contest and about 1,000 visitors this year alone.

The NS Cookfest will be held in Seoul this year for the last time and next year it will be held as a big food industry culture festival in Iksan, Jeonbuk Province. The city of Iksan, where the NS Cookfest will be held in 2020, is a mecca of the food industry in Korea and location of the national food cluster, and headquarter of the Haim holdings which owns NS Home Shopping.

Meanwhile, the NS Cookfest 2019 will be held on the first floor of the Yangjae aT Center in Seoul from 10 a.m. On the same day, the main event, a cooking contest, and a cultural festival with exhibitions and performances will be held in one place, filled with things to see and enjoy.

(Source: Asia today http://www.asiatoday.co.kr/view.php?key=20190527010016485)