Translations:Fishcake/35/en

History

Japanese fishcakes were introduced to Korea during the 1910–1945 Japanese colonial period. The first eomuk processing plant in South Korea was DongKwangFood in Bupyeong Market in the 1950s in Busan. In 1953, Park Jae-Deok who learned eomuk processing from Japan founded Samjin Fish Cake (currently using the brand, "Samjin Amook") which has the longest history in Korea. It was shortly after the outbreak of Korean War and many refugees migrated to Busan, resulting in booming eomuk industry.