[Article] Developing Indicators for Evaluation of Local Food Industrialization

# Source: Choi, J., Park, H., & Park, S.(in progress). Developing Indicators for Evaluation of Local Food Industrialization. The Korean Society of Food Culture.

 Developing Indicators for Evaluation of Local Food Industrialization

Jungsook Choi(최정숙), Hansik Park(박한식), & Seunghyun Park(박승현)

Abstract
Globalization of Korean Food has ever been emerging as an important issue of Korean government. Development and studying of the industry of local food is required prior to facilitate the strategy of Korean food. This research is to make the indicators for evaluation of local food industrialization, because there was no system to evaluate it. The draft of indicators was formed, reviewing precedent studies concerning the local food industry and the success factors. The final indicators were proved by two rounds of the Delphi survey. The composed indicators are ‘Rurality’, ‘Taste & Function’, ‘Base & Firm’, and ‘Factor of industry’. Also, the second and third sub-factors of the indicators were drawn, and the study analyzed the weights and rank to find out more important factors. The result shows that ‘Taste’ and ‘Policy of government’ are the most significant factors in order to evaluate the possibility to industrialize local food, and gives practical implications to managers of restaurants and officers of government.

Keywords: Local food, Industrialization, Indicator