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Korea agriculture intelligence

Korean agriculture, coffee, and brewing — read in one place

A daily bilingual digest, the full KMA weather desk, and sourcing tools for coffee and beverage buyers. The news and weather are free. Premium opens the coffee and beer desks and the workspace that keeps your research.

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  • Bilingual EN/KO throughout
  • KMA weather desk, free
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What's actually in the product

Grouped by desk, with free and Premium marked honestly. A lot of this costs nothing — we'd rather you know that up front.

Weather

Free

Five KMA-sourced views of Korean growing conditions. Free, and staying that way.

  • National synoptic charts covering Korea and the US Corn Belt
  • Live 기상특보 warnings, re-read on every load rather than cached
  • All 24 solar terms (절기) mapped to seven crop-risk profiles, with multi-year station series
  • Soil temperature and moisture at four depths — observed, long-run mean, and KIM forecast kept as separate layers
  • Daily observations against selectable KMA normals, defaulting to 1991–2020

For growers and farm operators timing fieldwork against the season, the soil, and the next warning.

Sourced from the Korea Meteorological Administration (기상청) under 공공누리 제1유형, attributed on every view.

Coffee

Premium

Reference and costing tools for people buying and roasting green coffee.

  • A 15-variety encyclopedia covering agronomy and cup profile
  • Origin harvest calendar for planning around picking windows
  • Landed-cost and cost-per-cup calculators, with brew-ratio modelling
  • Origin FX signals for coffee-producing currencies
  • Coffee features drawn from the Magazine, which is free to read

For green buyers, importers, and roasters planning purchases around harvest windows and currency moves.

Beer & Spirits

Premium

Recipe and yield tooling for brewers and distillers working in Korea.

  • A 17-variety hop reference with brewing characteristics
  • Grain-bill to new-make yield calculator, moisture-corrected on an as-received basis and overridable per lot
  • A verified directory of Korean craft spirits producers
  • Saved scenario slots for the calculators

For craft brewers and distillers sizing a grain bill before the grain is bought.

Market intelligence

Free + Premium

Snapshots that always say where the number came from and how old it is.

  • Market and price snapshots derived from EKAPEP, with the source named on each
  • Article-derived intelligence topics over a rolling 90-day window from an allow-listed source set
  • Freshness and coverage indicators on every snapshot, so a quiet feed looks quiet instead of looking current
  • The global dataset view is included with Premium

For analysts, traders, and policy or trade teams who need a number they can attribute and date.

Article-derived signals are labelled as such and are never presented as official market, weather, or regulatory data.

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Free

The digest and the full weather desk, in both languages.

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  • Daily bilingual agriculture digest
  • The complete KMA weather desk — all five views
  • Market and price snapshots with source labels
  • Magazine long-reads
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For operators and analysts tracking Korean agriculture, coffee, and brewing.

$7.50per month, billed annually
$90 billed yearlySave 17%
  • Everything in Free
  • The full Coffee desk — varieties, harvest calendar, landed cost, origin FX
  • The full Beer & Spirits desk — hops, grain-bill yield, producer directory
  • Workspaces and saved scenarios
  • Watchlists across market, coffee, and beverage series
  • JSON and CSV exports, subject to per-series rights
  • In-app alerts on thresholds and data stalenessBeta
Pro

Premium, plus a shared workspace for a team.

$24.17per month, billed annually
$290 billed yearlySave 17%
  • Everything in Premium
  • Create a team and share workspaces with its members

Transparent about sources and freshness

We organize public agriculture reporting, label what is live versus roadmap, and never present article-derived signals as official market, weather, or regulatory data.

Source-backed

Every brief links back to its original Korean or English source, and every snapshot names the feed it came from.

Freshness windows

Digests refresh continuously, each item is timestamped, and stale feeds are flagged rather than quietly shown as current.

Export rights respected

Exports check per-series rights. If any requested series is restricted, the whole export is refused rather than partially delivered.

Frequently asked questions

What's free and what's paid?
The daily digest, the Magazine, the entire KMA weather desk, and the standard market and intelligence snapshots are free. Premium covers the Coffee and Beer & Spirits desks, the global dataset view, and the workspace layer — scenarios, watchlists, exports, and alerts.
What does Pro add over Premium?
One thing: Pro can create a team and share a workspace with its members. Every desk, calculator, watchlist, export, and alert is identical on both plans, with no extra quotas or limits on Pro. If you're working alone, Premium is the right plan.
Do alerts email me?
No. Alerts are evaluated daily and recorded in your workspace, where you review them in the app. There is no email, SMS, or webhook delivery today, so please don't rely on them for time-critical decisions.
What sources do you use?
Public Korean and English agriculture reporting, EKAPEP market data, and the Korea Meteorological Administration for everything on the weather desk. Each surface links back to its original source.
How fresh is the digest?
The digest refreshes continuously throughout the day, and every item is timestamped so you can judge freshness at a glance.
Can I change or cancel my plan?
Yes. Switch plans or cancel anytime from the billing portal — Stripe prorates a plan change, and a cancellation keeps your access until the end of the current period. Payments already made are non-refundable, as described in the Terms.
Is Korean and English supported?
Yes. The product is bilingual throughout. Korean source content is the editorial source of truth, and English briefs follow.

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A guided walkthrough of the coffee, beverage, and market desks, filtered to the commodities and regions you actually follow — not a sample account.

  • You pick the surfaces; we bring real, dated data for them
  • You keep the filtered views afterward, whether or not you subscribe
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