Vegetarian population distribution South Korea as of December 2021, by type
vegan population in South Korea. Most people who had plant-based diets followed no strict vegetarian or vegan diet but rather a partially vegetarian diet. Nevertheless, partial and more restrictive vegetarian diets accounted only for a small share of the population.
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According to a survey conducted in South Korea in December of 2021, almost 80 percent of respondents who answered to follow a vegetarian diet classified themselves as flexitarian. A flexitarian diet is defined as being mostly plant-based and only occasionally allowing the consumption of meat and other animal products. In the same survey, only 0.5 percent of respondents that ate plant-based food considered themselves vegan. Although this number seems small, there is a notable growth in the