Seoul: Baseball fans will soon be able to buy cooked food right from their seats as the government has decided to allow the mobile sale of hotdogs and other cooked foods in stadium aisles and stands as part of deregulation efforts.

According to Yonhap News Agency, currently, only beer is allowed to be sold by mobile vendors, and spectators can only purchase cooked food items at concession stands and bring them to their seats due to hygiene concerns. On Monday, the Regulatory Rationalization Committee announced its decision to permit the mobile sale of specific cooked foods that are considered safe while on sale, such as hotdogs, churros, highball, and "dakgangjeong," a dish of crispy fried chicken glazed with a sweet and spicy sauce.

However, the committee has excluded sandwiches and gimbap, a seaweed-wrapped rice roll filled with vegetables and meat, from the mobile sale due to food poisoning concerns. Officials have advised mobile vendors to sell food within two hours of cooking and to encourage consumers to eat it immediately to ensure safety.

Park Yong-jin, a former lawmaker and the vice chairperson of the deregulation committee, emphasized the importance of addressing everyday inconveniences faced by people. "It amounts to an infringement of rights for the government to be blind to the everyday inconveniences of the people," Park stated. He added that the committee will continue to pursue deregulation on issues that are closely connected to the daily lives of citizens through proactive interpretation of laws and regulations.