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Robot chefs take over at South Korea's highway restaurants, to mixed reviews
Automation is posed as a labor shortage solution, but workers say robots are making their jobs — and food — worse.
On sweltering summer days, chef Park Jeong-eun would cook makguksu, an earthy Korean dish made with buckwheat noodles steeped in a tangy, ice-cold broth, topped with spicy gochujang paste. South Korean tech companies are now deploying collaborative robots, or co-bots, which work alongside humans, in hotels, elder care, schools, and restaurants. Workers at Munmak are now protected from toxic fumes, painful burns, and arthritic injuries, Kim Hye-rim, a deputy director of the service innovation team at Korea Expressway Corporation, told Rest of World.
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