If you're going to criticize Chinese products, you should be prepared to pay more.

I saw a ridiculous video while watching Shorts.
It was a video criticizing Bibibig ice cream for using Chinese red beans instead of domestic ones.
There were about 400 comments, and most of them were saying they would stop buying Bibibig.
But does it even make sense for Bibibig to use domestic red beans?
I looked it up, and Bibibig is still 500 won.
Online malls sell them for 20,000 won for a pack of 40.
Domestic red beans cost 15,000 won per 1KG.
If they made Bibibig with domestic red beans, they would have to charge at least 2,500 won.
The moment they raise the price to 2,500 won, no one will buy it.
If you want to criticize Chinese products, you must first be prepared to pay a higher price.
Aside from rice, we have no self-sufficient food resources.
There is a lot of talk about providing agricultural subsidies,
and people say that fostering corporate farms is the only way for domestic agriculture to survive.
While that is the right direction, no matter how much we foster corporate farms domestically,
we cannot secure price competitiveness against the vast production of China, the US, or Australia.
While Korea's development is largely due to the will for technological development and large corporations' investment in performance,
it is also fundamentally based on the fact that labor costs have been very low and we have neglected basic industries like agriculture, mining, and fisheries, almost to the point of exploitation.
If you want to eat domestic products, you just have to pay a higher price.
I don't understand what people want when they complain about expensive apples but say they can't eat Chinese apples.