Paik Jong-won Company Referred to Prosecutors Amid Hygiene and Farm-Zone Controversies

By Yoona, Lee

Aug 28, 2025

Paik Jong-won Company Referred to Prosecutors Amid Hygiene and Farm-Zone Controversies



Durbon Korea, the representative of Jongwon Baek, was sent to the prosecution on charges of neglecting raw meat at room temperature and producing products using foreign ingredients in the agricultural promotion zone. However, he was acquitted of the controversial use of a pesticide canister and a barbecue grill made of industrial materials. The reason for the acquittal is that there are no legal provisions to punish.

According to the police on the 28th, the Chungnam National Police Agency's anti-corruption economic crime investigation team sent officials from the Dubon Korea corporation, officials, and Baekseok factory on charges of violating the Farmland Act and Livestock Products Sanitation Management Act the previous day.

Dubon Korea is suspected of producing and selling products using foreign materials at its Baekseok plant in Yesan County, South Chungcheong Province, an agricultural promotion zone. Food processing and processing facilities cannot be built in agricultural promotion zones. Although it is exceptionally allowed only when producing food with domestic agricultural products as the main ingredient, it produced soybean paste made from China, and soybean paste made from the United States, Canada, and Australia. In the wake of the controversy, Dubon Korea suspended the operation of its Baekseok plant at the end of June.




At the 2023 Hongseong-gun Barbecue Festival in Chungcheongnam-do, he was also charged with transporting and neglecting large pork on a regular truck while exposed to room temperature. According to the Livestock Products Sanitation Management Act, refrigerated packaged meat must be stored and distributed at minus 2 degrees to 10 degrees Celsius and freezing below minus 18 degrees Celsius, so a top car equipped with refrigerated refrigeration facilities must be used for transportation, but it has been spotted in a regular truck.

Paik Jong-won Company Referred to Prosecutors Amid Hygiene and Farm-Zone Controversies
The charges of using a pesticide canister and a barbecue grill made of industrial materials were not sent because there was no legal punishment clause.

When the police decided not to send the charges, the complainant who reported the suspicion of pesticide spray is in violation of the law not only for sales purposes but also for business purposes"We have received a complaint from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety asking for an authoritative interpretation of the Food Sanitation Act.




Meanwhile, the controversy surrounding CEO Baek and Dubon Korea began with 'Backham Controversy' earlier this year. Since then, various controversies have been raised at the festival, including Brazilian chicken meal kits, low citrus beer content, sniping and retaliating for apples in the budget market, cooking rusty engine oil drums, backdabang plastic containers, and unilateral notification of the use of festival portrait rights, as well as numerous hygiene-related controversies, including the use of industrial scissors, pork left at room temperature, pesticide container apple juice, and 'chicken bone fryer'.

Meanwhile, Jongwon Baek apologized for various controversies and expressed his intention to stop all broadcasting activities and focus on the company's management. However, controversy is expected as Season 2 of 'Black and White Chef' involving Jongwon Baek CEO is about to be released.






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