Turbid rice wine with its wellbeing characteristics was recognized
as a sort of outstanding food in the early of 2000s, since then
turbid rice wine consumption increased greatly over the years. The
licenses issued for producing turbid rice wine were 768 in 2009 in
Korea according to the official Statistics Korea, 2011. 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, while it was 169 from 2001 to 2010. These
papers can be sorted into 6 groups, i.e., raw materials, fermentation