Korea Food and Drug Administration  
Public Announcement No. 2009 -286 
 
 
 
 
Proposed Standard of Nutrition Labelling and Labelling Method for 
Children’s Favourite Food in Food Service Establishments  
 
 
 
 
1. Reason for the enactment  
 
The reason for this enactme nt is to provide a nutrition labelling standard and method in order to 
prevent children from becoming obese and to contribute to a healthy dietary environment; 
pursuant to  Article  11 (Displaying Nutrient Content) of the ‘Special Act on Children’s Dietary 
Life Safety Management’ and Article 8 of the Enforcement Ordinance of the same Act.  
 
 
 
2. Key elements  
 
A. Established the labelling standard of nutrient contents and labelling method fo r 
children’s favourite food offered for sale in a  food service establis hment (Article 3 of the 
Proposal).  
 
    (1) Stipulated the food and the nutrient contents subject to label ling, and provided a labelling 
standard of children’s favourite food that is prepared and sold by food service establishments.  
    (2) Provided a method to label nutrition al information such as calories for children’s favourite 
food that is prepared and sold by food service establishments; thereby expecting an impact in 
prevention of child obesity and to contribute  to creating a healthy dietary environ ment.  
  
3. Presenting written opinions  
 
Any individual or group who has opinion(s) about the Proposed Enactment of ‘ Standard on 
Nutrition Labelling and Labelling Method for Children’s Favourite Food in Food Service 
Establishments’ is welcome to present op inions in writing to the Commissioner of the Korea 
Food and Drug Administration (Address: 194 Tongilro, Eunpyeong -gu Seoul, CC: Nutrition 
Policy Division, Phone: 02 -380-1311 Fax: 02 -382-6380)  with the following information by 
December 7th, 2009:  
 
  A. Opin ions about the announcement (Whether you are for or against it and the reasoning)  
B. Your name (for groups, name of the group and name of the representative), address and phone 
number   
C. Other references   
Korea Food and Drug Administration  
Public Notic e No. 2009 -286 
 
 
We hereby announce, the Standard of Nutrition Labelling and Labelling Method for Children’s 
Favourite Food, pursuant to  the provisions in Article 11  (Displaying Nutrient Content) of the 
‘Special Act on Children’s Dietary Life Safety Manage ment’ and  Article 8 of the Enforcement 
Ordinance of the same Act as follows.  
 
 
November 17th, 2009  
                                                                                                                                                             
 
Commissioner,                                                                                                                                               
Korea Food and Drug Administration  
 
 
 
 
 
Proposed Standard of Nutrition Label ling and Labelling Method for 
Children’s Favourite Food in Food Service Establishments  
 
 
Article 1 (Purpose) The purpose of this notice is to provide a nutrition labelling standard and 
method in order to prevent children from becoming ob ese and to contribu te to a healthy dietary 
environment ; pursuant to Article 11  (Displaying Nutrient content) of the ‘Special Act on 
Children’s Dietary Life Safety Management’ and Article 8 of the Enforcement Ordinance of the 
same Act.  
 
Article 2 (Definitions) For the purpose  of this notice, the definitions of terms shall be as 
follows;  
 
The term “menu” means the list of food (food or beverage)  from which consumers make their 
selection at the point of ordering that is provided by  the food service establishments  subject to 
the nutrition labelling  under Article 8 of ‘Enforcement Ordinance of the Special Act on 
Children’s Dietary Life Safety Management ’ (hereinafter referred to as the “Ordinance”) (e.g. 
Menu board, Poster and Bulletin board etc.).  
 Article 3 (Nutrition labelling a nd labelling method in food service establishments) The 
standard of labelling nutrient contents and labelling method are specified in the Attachment.  
    
Article 4 (Keeping  the data used to calculate nutrition al quantity ) When displaying the 
nutrient conte nts, the food service establishment  shall use actually measured values or values 
calculated with a scientific basis as the nutrition al information, and shall keep those data.  
 
Article 5 (The other Acts concerned)  Terms such as “amount per serving”, “nutrit ion standard” 
apply correspondingly to ‘Labelling Standard of Foods ’ (Korea Food and Drug Administration 
Public Notice) and ‘ Labelling Standard of Livestock Products ’ (National Veterinary Research 
and Quarantine Service Public Notice), unless they were def ined in this notice.  
 
 
 
 
ADDENDUM  
 
 
 
This notice shall take effect from January 1st, 2010.   
[Attachment]  
 
 
 
 
Standard of Nutrition Labelling and Labelling Method for 
Children’s Favourite Food in Food Service Establishments   
(In relation to Article 3)  
 
 
 
 
 
1. Subject foods to label nutrient content  
 
A. Among food service establishments  who sell food items specified in the Subparagraphs  below, 
those stipulated in Article 8 of Enforcement Ordinance of the Special Act on Children’s Dietary 
Life Safety Manageme nt shall label nutrient content.  
 
1) Confectionery and bakery  
2) Ice cream  
3) Hamburger s and pizza s 
4) Other prepared food for sale that may be labelled  
 
 
2. Subject nutrient contents to be labelled  
 
A. The nutrient contents specified in the following Subparagraphs sh all be labelled.  
 
1) Calorie s 
2) Sugar  
3) Protein  
4) Saturated fat  
5) Sodium  
6) Other nutrient contents that may be emphasized  
  
3. Labelling standard and method  
 
A. The nutrient contents shall be labelled in accordance with specified standards in the following 
Subparagra phs. 
 
1) Food that is on the menu for at least 90 days per calendar year shall label its nutrient 
contents. The quantity contained of each nutrient per serving shall be labelled. 
Additionally, the percentage (%) of the recommended daily requirements may also be 
indicated.  
2) The quantity of each serving shall be indicated as a unit such as portion, piece, cup or 
number of items with the weight in parentheses. When offering more than 2 servings, the 
total shall be declared (For example, 2 pieces (00g)/ Total 8 pie ces). 
3) For a set menu that consists of more than 2 kinds of food, the total calories of the food 
combination shall be labelled. If a menu has multiple combinations of food, the total 
calories may be labelled as a range of the minimum and maximum values (For  example, 
100~500 Kcal/serving (00g)).  
 
B. The nutrient contents shall be labelled in accordance with specified methods in the following 
Subparagraphs.  
 
1) The nutrient contents shall be labelled in a clear and conspicuous manner using a colour  
that is disti nguishable from the background colour . 
2) The calories shall be labelled at  at least 80% of the type size of the name or the price of 
food on the menu offered at the point of ordering, and other detailed nutrition al 
information should be indicated using means  such as leaflet s, poster s, website s etc. 
3) If the food service establishment provides a delivery service (for orders taken online or 
by telephone etc.), it shall offer consumers nutrition al information using a flyer, sticker, 
etc. upon delivery.  
4) A food serv ice establishment that is capable of provid ing information via the internet 
shall label calories and other nutrition al information in the proximity of the food name 
(or price) to allow consumers to identify nutrition al information when they select the 
product.   
 
C. The detailed labelling method shall apply correspondingly to the detailed labelling method 
by nutrient contents stipulated in the ‘Labelling Standard of Foods ’.