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2011-05-18

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As radiation from damaged nuclear reactors in Japan leaks into the sea‚ the uneasiness of consumers is rapidly growing by the day‚ causing people to seek preventive measures such as salt.
Especially in China‚ the hoarding of salt has caused a 20-fold increase in exports of Korean salt.
Solar salt‚ or sun-dried salt‚ originating from the pristine waters of Korea's South Sea is being acknowledged around the world.
Salt from Guerande‚ France is often called the caviar of salt. It is full of nutrients and minerals thanks to sunlight from the Atlantic Ocean‚ temperate climate and other favorable natural conditions. Moreover‚ its outstanding taste makes it the favorite of chefs as the best culinary salt‚ and remarkably‚ it is still produced using techniques passed down from 1‚200 years ago.
Nevertheless‚ there is a kind of salt that outranks that from Guerande.
Sinan County in South Jeolla Province is Korea's biggest producer of solar salt.
Solar salt is produced by evaporating seawater‚ and Sinan's wide mud flats have the ideal conditions for it.
Jeungdo Island‚ twice the size of Seoul's Yeouido‚ is home to the Taepyeong Salt Pond‚ which produces more than 70% of Korea's solar salt supply.
There are few salt farms which make salt using traditional and natural methods.
[Interview : Jo Jae-wu‚ Director
Taepyeong Salt Pond] "Annual sales of salt come out to about US$11 million. We are exporting to Japan‚ the United States‚ the Philippines‚ and Germany."
Thus‚ it comes as no surprise that Korean salt is increasingly gaining popularity around the world.
Compared to the world-famous salt from Gu
[Interview : Ham Gyeong-sik‚ Head researcher
Solar Salt Biotechnology Center] "Korean solar salt has more natural minerals than the French salt flower because Korean soil is of higher quality."

The production of solar salt begins with the evaporation of seawater which has a salinity rate of 3%.
[Interview : Lee Mun-seok‚ Chief of maintenance
Taepyeong Salt Pond] "Gathering seawater in a reservoir and removing the impurities by precipitation will result in a higher-quality salt."
Jeungdo Island is part of the Sinan Dadohae‚ a UNESCO biosphere reserve .
After 20 days of evaporation‚ the seawater is placed in a different‚ mat-covered pond.
After 3 more days‚ salt begins to take shape.
Once the salinity rate in the pond reaches 25%‚ the salt is separated from the water. When the weather is favorable‚ this task can take just a single day.
Once the salt is dried to some extent‚ it is transported to a salt storage center‚ where it is once again dried. During this step‚ the bittern is dried out.
The wooden floors help the salt dry faster by absorbing leftover water.
[Interview : Lee Mun-seok‚ Chief of maintenance
Taepyeong Salt Pond] "The rate of bittern left in the salt is about 30%‚ which is too salty. Thus‚ we let the bittern dry up."
The end result of such efforts is solar salt. The value of solar salt can be confirmed through examining its contents.
However‚ in Haenam county‚ there is a solar salt produced in mud flats that is even more superior.
Solar salt harvested from mud flat ponds is of even higher quality than Sinan's solar salt.
[Interview : Kim Gwang-rye‚ Salt farmer
Haenam Salt Pond] "Because there are a lot of minerals in mud flats‚ mud flat salt is better than solar salt."
In order to produce this salt‚ no mat is used to cover the surface of the salt pond‚ and instead‚ the soil is thoroughly flattened like how it was done a long time ago.
[Interview : Kim Gwang-rye‚ Salt farmer
Haenam Salt Pond] "Once the ground is dry enough‚ it's flattened with a roller and filled with seawater that has a salinity rated at 23 ppt."

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