Patent ID: 8813516

Claim:
A refrigerator comprising: a main body which has a cooling chamber and a freezing chamber; a storage chamber which is provided in the cooling chamber to store foodstuffs; an irradiation device which irradiates light within a visible light region correspondingly to color of the foodstuffs stored in the storage chamber, the irradiation device configured to operate when a door of the refrigerator is closed; an optical deodorization module which includes an ultraviolet light irradiation device which is mounted to the storage chamber to irradiate ultraviolet light and a photocatalyst filter which receives the ultraviolet light from the ultraviolet light irradiation device and is coated with a photocatalyst agent; a control unit which controls the irradiation device and the ultraviolet light irradiation device; and an input part provided at a front side of the upper panel for inputting information of the color of the foodstuffs stored in the storage chamber, wherein the irradiation device has a white light source, a red light source and a green light source, and is configured to irradiate light having a color combining white and one color selected from red and green which corresponds to the color of the foodstuffs according to the information input to the input part.