We welcome your visit!
Prof. Jae
Park’s Surimi School/Forum - educating the people who lead
the world of surimi since 1993.
We offer
the global surimi and surimi seafood industry the most updated marketing,
products, production technology, and research.
Through various global activities, over nearly 7,000 people have been participated
as of November 2019. As a founder of the program, I am delighted to offer
most updated technical and market information in professional manners.
Dr. Jae
W. Park (Founder/Director), surimiman1@yahoo.com
Founded
in 1993. It was offered in Astoria, OR, USA every
year until 2017. Starting in 2020, it will be offered
in Seattle.
Founded
jointly with Activ Int'l and Paris
Ag Tech (formerly ENSIA) in Paris in 1999. Mr. Robert Delin, Dr. Pascal Guenneugues,
Mr. Jean-Luc Beliveau, and Dr. Jean-Marc Schiffermann
made significant contributions to the establishment of this program covering
Europe and Russia. AZTI (Spain) was a good collaborator for
success.
Unlike
Surimi School where technical education is a priority, the first Surimi
Industry Forum was founded to deliver a wide range of sales/marketing,
technical, production, product development, and consumer trends immediately to
our clients in 2001. It plays also a very important role in offering an
opportunity for network development. A program is typically developed in 6 mo advance through a program
development meeting attended by 30-40 industry leaders. This forum will be offered in Seattle effectively in 2020 (May 5).
The
first Surimi Forum Japan was held in Tokyo on July 20-21, 2010 with the
attendance of 125. This program was established
to connect Japan and the world under the name of our common language
"surimi" and to celebrate the 35th anniversary of crabstick (kanikama; crab-flavored surimi seafood) in Japan. The third program was
offered in Feb 2018. The fourth is scheduled in
spring 2021.
OSUすり身スクールのプログラムの一環として、「すり身」という共通言語の下に日本とその他各国を結ぶ目的で第一回すり身フォーラム日本を開催します。何百年にもわたるすり身とかまぼこの長い歴史を持つ日本はすり身の主要製造国でした。1975年に、日本は世界中で生産されるすり身の95％以上を消費したと推定されています。カニ風味かまぼこ（カニカマ）の発明は、様々な世界市場へ「すり身」を紹介する足掛かりとなりました。これがすり身の世界化となるきっかけとなりました。今日では、すり身先進国として、世界中で生産される練製品の50％強を日本が利用しています。このカニカマが、アジア(日本)‐北米‐ヨーロッパ‐ロシア‐南米の全体を一つに結ぶ重要な役割を演じたのです。この第一回すり身フォーラム日本では、カニカマの発明から35年の間に日本以外の海外で開発された製品や技術を再検証したいと思います。またこの機会に、このような素晴らしい製品を開発し、世界中で様々な練製品の賞味を可能にした貢献に対して、日本と日本の練製品業界へ向けて世界中の賞賛と敬意を表したいと思います。
· Regionally Consolidated and Rotated –
Surimi School
Europe, Surimi School/Forum USA, and Surimi Forum Japan have been consolidated
and are offered in the order of Japan (2018, 2021, 2024,… ), Europe (2019,
2022, 2025,… ), and USA (2020, 2023, 2026…)
Global Surimi Forum mimicking the format of
Ground Fish Forum was suggested by the US industry leaders along with Asian and European leaders. Its
development was exercised with its steering committee
in 2017. But,
it was abandoned after the survey conducted anonymously with 42 attendees of the
OSU Surimi School program development luncheon meeting (Nov 2, 2017). The
majority 40/42 was against the concept of the format [Invitation only for
registration (not open enrollment); No sponsorship but high registration fee
(over $2000/person)]. Therefore, the existing programs (USA, Japan, and Europe)
were consolidated and now is offered by rotating
regionally.
Founded
jointly with Thai Dept of Fisheries in
Bangkok in 1996. Dr. Poonsap
Virulhakul (retired Director of Fisheries)
helped significantly to establish this program. Mr. Anucha
Technitisawad (MD, Andaman Surimi Industries) also
made a significant role in advancing the program further. Regardless of the
consolidating Europe, Japan, and USA, this Surimi School Asia will be offered continuously in even years.
The
first program was offered in Busan, S Korea on Nov 5
and 6, 2019. This program will be operated using Korean as a primary language except a
few presentations covering “Surimi Maker’s Forum” and other hot topics given by
non-Korean speakers.