GANGHWA COUNTY

Yellow Sweet Potato

• With a peculiar chestnut taste as differentiated from other regional sweet potatoes, it has special feature of the yellow inside, high degree of sweetness, good digestion, and comfortable stomach.
• Original name was Saengmi in old days but many people made it different naming by color such as yellow potato, pumkin potato, carrot potato, honey potato, etc.
• The naming of yellow potato has become very popular and gained reputation among the Ganghwado resident and also by the people who visited Ganghwado.
• In due course, the naming of yellow potato was publicly declared as a brand of "Ganghwa yellow potato" upon sincere study for naming a particular brand in May l998.