The amount of turbid rice wine sold in 2010 has already reached 412,279 tons whereas it was only 170,165 tons in 2006, and export of the wine was 3290 tons in 2006, and reached 19,407 tons in 2010 according
to the official report of Korea National Tax Service in 2011. In
addition, the number of published papers on turbid rice wine was
88 from 1990 to 2000