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Gyeongbuk Agricultural Technology Administration carried out the nation opinion research to mushroom industry in 115 of the citizen and the provincials from 10/17/2008 to 10/18/2008. Which was for both grasping the citizen’s opinion and habits and understanding farmers’. The result of the research is the following. 37.4 percent people preferred Lentimus edodes among the all respondents and 27.0 percent preferred Flammulina velutipes. As for the purchasing place, 57.4 percent buy them in large retail stores, 40.9 percent buy them in traditional markets. 67 percent of the respondents mainly use them in fall, 31.3 percent use them in winter. 88.7 percent of them mainly eat the mushrooms at home, 11.3 percent is at restaurants. 63.5 percent of them responded that the price of mushrooms was resonable, 26.1 percent answered that was expensive. In appearance, 27 percent of them chose yellow Flammulina velutipes as a goodlooking mushroom, 19.1 percent chose Lentimus edodes .

• Woo-Sik Jo(Department of Agricultural Environment, Gyeongbuk Agricultural Technology Administration, Daegu 702-320, Korea)
• Eok-Keum Hwang( Department of Agricultural Environment, Gyeongbuk Agricultural Technology Administration, Daegu 702-320, Korea) | Eok-Keum Hwang
• Doo-Hyun Cho( Department of Agricultural Environment, Gyeongbuk Agricultural Technology Administration, Daegu 702-320, Korea) | Doo-Hyun Cho
• Chung-Don Choi( Department of Agricultural Environment, Gyeongbuk Agricultural Technology Administration, Daegu 702-320, Korea) | Chung-Don Choi
• So-Deuk Park( Department of Agricultural Environment, Gyeongbuk Agricultural Technology Administration, Daegu 702-320, Korea) | So-Deuk Park
• Hee-Young Jung( Division of Applied Biology and Chemistry, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702-701, Korea) | Hee-Young Jung