1. 2013 Spring Semester Product & Service Innovation Problem Definition Yena Lee / Fangzhou Yuan / Leny Decret

2. Problems of Our Interest in Korean Society Area: Environment Waste of left-over (new but near-expiration date) food in restaurants, grocery stores, convenience stores, etc. Area: Society / Social Welfare Homeless people do not have enough food Waste of resources Lack of a distribution system Inefficiency in our society

3. Deeper Information about the Problems How much food is thrown away?. How many homeless people in Seoul? Nationwide: 13262 homeless people Seoul: 4734 homeless people, among them 964 don’t have a regular place to stay Source: 홈리스정책연구센터 17000 ton/day in Korea. Increasing every year 14% of all food. Worth 25 trillion won Convenience stores throw away food near expiration date; A hotel in Korea fills up five 180L buckets a day; 5% of 0.9 million train bentos goes to trash