The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety has designated 41 food safety zones, including Lotte Department Store and Outlet nationwide

Sep 04, 2025

The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety has designated 41 food safety zones, including Lotte Department Store and Outlet nationwide
=\'Food Safety Zone'The staff of Lotte Department Store and the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety take a commemorative photo at the designation ceremony. (From left, Choi Soo-young, director of the Lotte Central Research Institute, Shin Nam-sun, director of the Safety Management Division of Lotte Department Store, Seo Yong-seok, director of Jamsil Branch, Kim Jin-yeop, director of the operation Division of Lotte Department Store, Oh Yoo-kyung, director of the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, 16th Korean MasterChef. Photo courtesy =Lotte Department Store



The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety held a commemorative event at the 1st floor of Lotte World Mall in Jamsil on the 4th to designate 41 places, including all Lotte Department Store stores and Lotte Premium Outlets, as food safety zones and give hygiene ratings to restaurants in the facilities.

The restaurant hygiene rating system is a system that evaluates the hygiene status of restaurants at the request of the business operator and gives grades (very good, excellent, and good) to excellent businesses, and designates areas with more than 60% of restaurants designated as 'food safety zones'.

The designation was aimed at informing the public of the importance of food poisoning prevention and food safety and creating an environment where users can enjoy eating out with confidence by further raising the hygiene level of restaurants, and was attended by master Ahn Yoo-sung, who is serving as a public relations ambassador for food poisoning prevention.




Director Oh Yoo-kyung said at the ceremony that `This designation is a representative case of public-private cooperation that has increased the hygiene level of multi-use facilities (distribution complex) used by about 160 million people per year. We hope that restaurants designated as sanitary-grade restaurants and food safety zones will spread further in the future, creating an environment where people can eat out with confidence anywhere in Korea.'

Lotte Shopping said 1,717 F&B stores in department stores, premium outlets, and shopping malls operated by Lotte Department Store will be certified as the `restaurant hygiene rating system.'

Shin Nam-sun, head of Lotte Department Store's safety management division, said "Lotte Department Store is making every effort to manage food safety so that customers can use it with confidence."We will continue to do our best to create a safe store environment that customers can always trust and use."."




Ambassador of Sanitary Rating and Food Addiction Prevention Ambassador Ahn Yoo-sung, who attended the event, said "Sanitary in restaurants is the most basic matter, and we will do our best to promote the sanitation rating system so that it can be better known to the business operators and the public who operate the restaurant."."

The Minister of Food and Drug Safety Oh Yoo-kyung visited the sanitary-grade designated business in the department store and delivered the sanitary-grade designated signboard, saying, `Thank you to the operators who worked hard to manage hygiene so that the public can use the restaurant with confidence, and please make every effort to comply with food poisoning prevention rules and manage food hygiene and safety.'






This article was translated by Naver AI translator.