Features Podcast
Changing the system in Korea with Woo-Jai Lee of BluGen

After cultivating his genomics expertise in the United States and in Norway, Woo-Jai Lee returns to his homeland in South Korea to start an olive flounder RAS project in Goheung. Raising olive flounder, a.k.a. Japanese halibut, in a recirculating aquaculture system has its unique challenges. BluGen founder & CEO Woo-Jai shares the challenges and innovations of building a 1,700 MT/year facility for this flatfish marine species.

Further reading:

• “Korea’s first RAS project to produce olive flounder” RAStech Magazine (Nov. 21, 2022)
• “BluGen Korea signs Norwegian SIFT Group as its RAS designer” RAStech Magazine (March 1, 2022)