<기자> 2017 Bottled water tasting award was held on tenth of March at Kyung Hee University to mark World Water Day. The selected judges evaluated 81 different water brands that are distributed only in Korea retail stores through blind taste. There were 13 contents to examine the best water, such as transparency, freshness and structure. The winner of domestic brand still water was ‘Deep Sea Drinking Water’ and unexpectedly private brand water showed great results. Homeplus private brand water came in second place. Also, ‘Diamond Sparkling’ from Coca Cola was the overwhelming winner of sparkling water in domestic division. In imported still water category, the top two water winners were all from Australia. ‘Aussie baby water’ came in first out of 19 different brands. ‘Gerolsteiner’ from Germany was placed in first in imported sparkling water division.

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