When Nongshim President Shin Choon-ho was looking for an appropriate name for the shrimp snack, he got an idea from his daughter mispronouncing Arirang (아라랑), pronouncing it 'Arikkang' (아리깡).

[3] The Nongshim company got ideas from the popular Japanese snack Kappa Ebisen made by Calbee.

Nongshim spent more than a year attempting to reverse engineer the Kappa Ebisen snack and had particular difficulty with finding an appropriate temperature to cook the product.

Saeukkang can now be found in 76 countries in stores like Walmart in the United States[5] and Taobao in China.

There are about 100 Saeukkang fan clubs in Korea's largest web portal, Naver, consisting of both younger and older generations.