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On the floor of Nongshim’s noodle factory in the city of Gumi, there’s an industrial symphony playing out: the grinding of wheat flour and rattle of rollers gives way to the rhythmic swish of blades on dough; ribbons of fresh noodles are steamed with a hiss, flash-fried with a crackle, then whisked away in the blink of an eye on an ever-humming conveyor belt, and packaged into crinkling plastic.
Every minute, 600 packs of ramyeon — Korean instant noodles, also known as ramyun and ramen — roll off the highly automated, ultra-fast production lines into boxes carried to the loading bay by robots.
This 42,266‑square‑meter (454,947 square feet) facility is South Korea’s largest instant noodle factory, churning out 6 million packets per day.
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