Back in the 1950s, Chueh Chuang-ti, now a technical consultant to Taiwan's fishing industry, was responsible for fishing industry statistical work on the Ministry of Economic Affairs 'committee to raise fishing industry production. He remembers that in seafood trade statistics, the number one import was always Korean squid.
台灣漁業技術顧問社董事長闕壯狄也記得，民國四十年初期，他在經濟部漁業增產委員會擔任漁業統計工作時，水產貿易最大宗的進口品就是韓國魷魚。