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The word 'vegan'
is used a lot in food and cosmetics these days. For the sake of health and the environment, meat alternatives made from plant-based ingredients and cosmetics that are not tested on animals are attracting attention.

Reporter Kim so-young contributed to this report.

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The meat for the
homemade hamburger patty is cooked, the chicken in the salad, and the sweet and sour pork that is crispy in oil and sprinkled with sauce are delicious.

On the surface, they look like real beef, pork, and chicken, but they're all soy-based meat alternatives.

The tuna in the sandwich was also made with meat alternatives.

[Cho Young-hong/Nong Sim Tae-kyung: Nowadays, those parts (soybean fishy smell) have improved a lot, so in the case of texture, it is a little more dense and the texture of the meat is alive...]

The company, which develops and sells meat alternatives, saw its related sales double last year compared to the previous year.

A store in Gangnam, Seoul, where you can enjoy cooking and selling various types of meat alternatives, attracts health- and environmentally-conscious consumers even if they don't necessarily eat vegetarians.

[Ahn Jung-min/Seongdong-gu in Seoul: I think it has a really natural texture and smell that I don't know if I don't really say it.]

Even in cosmetics, there is a 'vegan' wind that is not tested on animals for plant-based ingredients.

At a vegan cosmetics store in a department store, more than 2% of sales are in their 70s and 20s.

[Goseul-a/Gangnam-gu, Seoul: It's a brand that cares about animals and the environment, so I think it's nice to be able to consume more value.]

The domestic vegan cosmetics market is expected to reach KRW 30 trillion by 5 from KRW 700 billion last year.

The so-called "vegan consumption," which considers the environment and animal welfare, is spreading as a consumption trend.

(Video Interview: Kim Won-bae, Park Hyun-chul, Video Editing: Kim Byung-jik)