The three names on the box: KOGIN, Hongbaek and the manufacturer

KOGIN is the consumer product brand attached to the red ginseng stick and the black ginseng stick. The food type of both products is liquid tea.

A brand name on its own does not tell you where a product was made or where its raw material came from. That information is written separately in other fields on the box.

Hongbaek Agricultural Company Corporation (농업회사법인 주식회사 홍백) is the company listed as the seller on the box. Its address is 352 Masu-ro, Geumseong-myeon, Geumsan County, Chungcheongnam-do.

Hongbaek also has a separate materials business. We do not describe its facilities and technology as the production process for the two KOGIN finished products. Read the company activities and the product labeling separately.

The place that sells a product and the place that makes it do not have to be the same. The box has two separate fields for them.

KOGIN is the product brand, Hongbaek is the company listed as the seller, and the place that made the finished product is written separately in the manufacturer field on the box.

We keep the same division when we introduce the products, when we answer questions, and when we describe the company. Having several names does not mean they are different ways of writing the same role.

The address on the box tells you where the company and its premises are. It does not tell you where the raw material was grown.

The origin of the raw material can be checked in the ‘Korean origin’ label in the ingredient name field. We do not narrow it down any further than that either.

When you come across the names KOGIN, Hongbaek and the manufacturer on the box, do not merge them into different ways of naming the same thing. KOGIN is the product brand consumers see, Hongbaek Agricultural Company Corporation (농업회사법인 주식회사 홍백) is the company listed as the seller, and the manufacturer is a name you check in a separate field.

This division is not a procedure for memorizing long names. If you sort out whether a question is about the brand, the seller or the manufacturer, you can answer briefly and accurately within what the box states.

Keeping this order in mind reduces the habit of inferring the rest from a single name. The brand name on the front helps you find the product, and each label on the back lets you check the product type, the raw materials, the quantity, the nutrition information, and the manufacturer and the seller, one field at a time.

If you have to write up an explanation without the box in front of you, leave the fields you could not check empty. We do not fill in what the labeling does not say with a company name or a brand name.

• Begin with the liquid tea marking in the food type field.
• Next, read the composition of Red and of Black in the ingredient name field, one product at a time.
• Then check the net content and the per-stick nutrition information as separate items.
• After that, look at the manufacturer and seller fields separately and note the role of each name.
• Last, check the use-by date by the date printed on the box, not by when you bought it.

Under the single KOGIN brand, KOGIN Red and KOGIN Black carry different ingredient names. Red is labeled with red ginseng powder, Korean origin, 15% and purified water, and Black is labeled with black ginseng powder, Korean origin, 12%, fructooligosaccharide, xanthan gum and purified water.

So checking the KOGIN brand name alone is not enough to write the same ingredients for the two products. Start with the product name, then copy the ingredient name field that belongs to it, and the red figure does not end up on black, and the black items do not end up on red.

The ‘Korean origin’ note in the ingredient name is information you confirm in that ingredient label. We do not use the fact that the company address is in Geumsan County, Chungcheongnam-do to explain that the raw material came from a narrower region. Read the address and the origin label in their own fields only.

A KOGIN Red stick and a KOGIN Black stick are 12 g each, and a box holds 10 sticks, so the total net content is labeled as 120 g. These figures describe the quantity of the product, which is a separate matter from the roles of the company or the manufacturer.

The intake directions are printed on the box, and the label says to consume the contents immediately after opening. When we pass the directions on, we do not set a new standard of our own; we repeat them as printed on the box.

A single stick kept on its own shows less labeling than the box does. If there is information you need to look at again later, such as the brand, the seller, the manufacturer or the use-by date, keeping the box together with it is the clearest way to check.

Reading a description of Hongbaek Agricultural Company Corporation (농업회사법인 주식회사 홍백) does not turn that description into a manufacturing description of the KOGIN finished product. On the KOGIN box we are listed as the seller, and the place that made the finished product is written separately in the manufacturer field.

When you organize a document or an answer, write the role next to the name: product brand next to KOGIN, seller next to Hongbaek, and manufacturer next to the manufacturer's name. That makes it clear at once what each name means, compared with listing three names on their own.

The company location is used only as information about where the company and its premises are. We do not connect that address automatically to where the raw material was grown or to the manufacturing site of the finished product, and we check what is needed again in the ingredient name and the manufacturer field, each in its own place.

If someone asks how KOGIN and Hongbaek relate, you can answer that KOGIN is the consumer product brand and Hongbaek Agricultural Company Corporation (농업회사법인 주식회사 홍백) is the company listed as the seller on the box. Add the sentence that the manufacturer is checked in a separate field on the box, and all three roles are covered.

When the ingredients are asked about as well, asking for the product name before you go on is the safer approach. For KOGIN Red, pass on what is labeled, red ginseng powder, Korean origin, 15% and purified water. For KOGIN Black, pass on what is labeled, black ginseng powder, Korean origin, 12%, fructooligosaccharide, xanthan gum and purified water.

When you finish the explanation, check that no sentence guesses the manufacturer or the origin from the brand name alone. Separating the wording printed on the box from the interpretation you add leaves only facts that can be verified.

This article organizes only the relationship between the brand, the seller, the manufacturer and the product labeling as read on the KOGIN box. The items below cannot be known from the roles printed on the box alone, so we do not infer them or set them for you.

• A growing region for the raw material narrower than the company address: this article does not answer that.
• We do not describe the other businesses of Hongbaek as the manufacturing process of the KOGIN finished products.
• We do not conclude from the brand name alone that the manufacturer and the seller are the same company.