CJ CheilJedang's California kitchen feeds Bibigo's US rise

Korea Herald correspondent BEAUMONT, California — CJ Group's three-day K-pop and Korean culture festival, KCON LA 2026, drew 142,000 fans, and for many of them, the food may have mattered just as much as the music, with over 10,000 people lining up to try US-made Korean dishes at the booth run by the group's flagship Korean food brand, Bibigo. Few attendees likely knew, however, that the mandu, or Korean dumplings, on their plate traced back to a plant not far away. The factory in Beaumont, abou

By The Korea Herald