Paik Jong-won Accused of Using Expired Ingredients at Budget Festival Events

Jun 14, 2025

Paik Jong-won Accused of Using Expired Ingredients at Budget Festival Events



"Jongwon Paik uses expired food materials for budget festivals"

THe Born Korea, a restaurant businessman in 
Paik Jongwon, is embroiled in a controversy over food materials for local festivals this time.
On the 13th, the studio Oh Jae-na channel wrote, "Why does Paik Jongwon risk his life to a local festival? A video titled " was released.
In the video, Kim Jae-hwan, a former MBC liberal arts producer, raised suspicions about the real purpose of Jongwon Baek expanding its local festival business and the use of food materials that had expired months in local festivals.

On this day, PD Kim Jae-hwan released an in-house presentation video that revealed why Jongwon Baek is putting all its life and death on local festivals.




In the video, the Jongwon Baek "The reason I care so much about the festival is that it costs a lot of money for us to run our own store." But if you do 10 local festivals a year, you can create and test more than 300 brandsThe food material distribution market supplied to local festivals is also endless. Local festivals are the same process as franchises. However, franchises need a process such as recruiting franchisees, meeting and educating shop owners. The local festival business has the same process as the franchise. Our goal is to do 100 out of 1,000 festivals nationwide. It's a decade to pile up. We can go to a big company."

Paik Jong-won Accused of Using Expired Ingredients at Budget Festival Events
In response, PD Kim Jae-hwan revealed how to cooperate with local governments and Dubon Korea.

Producer Kim "The local government publishes a business announcement for local festival consulting services tailored to Durbon Korea. In order to prevent other companies from applying, Dubon Korea is easily auctioned off. Local governments provide huge consulting costs, including Baek Jong-won TV YouTube promotional expenses. Many of the 30 booths used for the festival are local government officials, Saemaul Women's Association, and Youth Association, who receive Dubon Korea's food materials, sell food that can be cooked and sold simply, and take the margin. Customers go out with an unpleasant feeling. Do you serve local gourmet food?募募? The head of the local government has no heart at all. Leaving this door with roughly roasted and heated foods, Dubon Korea made 50 brands and ate them, but there are many miscellaneous recipes.




"Derbon Korea spends all of its taxes on brand experiments. Jongwon Baek himself cannot set up a direct store because he is not confident, but he uses local festivals. If we had a franchise business by paying off the retirement benefits of ordinary people, we would now pay our taxes to do our own business. The local government receives a large amount of consulting fees, supplies food materials, and tests the brand for free, so it is a local festival in Jongwon Baek that gives birth to golden eggs that swim after digging the ground. The Jongwon Baek is to use the local festival like another franchise. However, it is not subject to the Affiliate Business Act. There are no store owners protesting like annual money, and only local government heads and government officials need to bake and boil it. Local festivals are much better than franchises," he stressed.

Paik Jong-won Accused of Using Expired Ingredients at Budget Festival Events
There was another shocking revelation. It was reported that many food materials that had expired months had been exhausted at the festival in Yesan, Jongwon Baek's hometown, in 2024.

PD Kim released a photo of Dubon Korea's food materials used at the Yesan Three Kingdoms Festival held from October 17 to 20, 2024, questioning that "the issue of using expired food materials for local festivals has been steadily pointed out, but is it reliable for Dubon Korea, which is responsible for the most regional festivals?"




Various food ingredients such as bulgogi sauce, chicken stock, mayonnaise, fried squid, coffee booth, and cold brew have passed their expiration dates. Producer Kim said, `This is enough to feed the festival guests with food materials to go into the food waste bin.' `We can argue that Dubon Korea only kept it and did not use it for the festival," he said, revealing a report from a budget merchant at the time.

Budget merchant A shared a food and materials warehouse with Dubon Korea. I took a picture of the fact that the inventory of expired food materials is shrinking. What if a person who appears in a black-and-white cook runs out of expired food ingredients. This is completely wrong.'

Producer Kim said "Is the festival guest human interaction. The Jongwon Baek strongly points out, "Why don't you retire from the restaurant industry?" "Testing the brand with taxes, they are running out of stock of expired food materials. This is the same as the last mold rice cake incident. We kept stocking up on food ingredients to be discarded. Dubon Korea has won the most regional festivals in Korea and is the No. 1 franchise company. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety criticized, "What the hell are you doing?"

Paik Jong-won Accused of Using Expired Ingredients at Budget Festival Events
The problem is that the Jongwon Baek is one with the local government. In Mungyeong, Gunsan, Yesan, the name of The Bon Restaurant Industrial Development Institute was written. The local festival is just a cash cow of the future of Jongwon Baek "Tangerine beer is a representative example. It is a big picture of Jongwon Baek trying to dominate several festivals by making 750 cans with just one citrus. Citrus is not put in because it goes well with beer, but only local specialties in beer. So I put in only 0.032% as if I got it right. I put fruit in it because of the local festival."

Paik Jong-won Accused of Using Expired Ingredients at Budget Festival Events
Meanwhile, in Yesan, Jongwon Baek's hometown, a banner was posted on the side of major roads in the region to support representative Baek.

The banner said, `I always remember and support the sweat, tears, and budget that CEO Jongwon Baek shed quietly,' or `I sincerely support you, CEO Jongwon Baek and Yesan County residents who love Yesan.'

Yesan-gun explained that it was set up by local residents to support and support Baek's efforts, such as revitalizing the budget market, regenerating the original city center, and recovering the economy through festivals.

Kim Soon-cheol, Chairman of Yesan-eup's village head council, said "Representative Baek has contributed more than anyone else to the budget of his hometown."I hope that the faith and support of the residents of Yesan will be delivered at a time when attention is focused as it is now."



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