Ready-to-cook meal kits, which contain fully-prepared ingredients, are changing the cooking game for Koreans.<br />Park Se-young has more.<br />Meal kits have made cooking a lot easier for this working mom, who has to balance both work and family.<br />Because they come with pre-measured and pre-cut ingredients, meal kits can help reduce the time and effort that goes into cooking.<br /><br />"Washing and cutting ingredients is a lot of work but they're all included and pre-washed. Buying ingredients one by one leaves a lot of leftovers, but with meal kits, I like that I can cook delicious meals efficiently."<br /><br />The popular cooking boxes come in a range of flavors and menus.<br />With a variety of sauces, oils and spices, meal kits are a popular choice for making exotic dishes for special occasions.<br />In fact, Korea's meal kit market is expected to grow from an estimated 34-point-six million dollars in 2019 to over 600 million dollars in the next five years.<br />And with a growing number of double-income families and single-person households, major food retailers like CJ are jumping in the race.<br /><br />"With R&D capability like no other and based on know-how from top chefs' recipes, we'll develop really tasty meals that consumers want."<br /><br />At around 20 dollars for two servings, meal kits don't come cheap, …and cooking boxes ordered online take at least one day to ship.<br />And because meal kits usually consist of fresh ingredients like meat and vegetables, …they have a short shelf life.<br />Park Se-young, Arirang News.<br />
