N.thing Harnesses 1,700-Year Data to Control Plant Components

The Chosun Ilbo · Park Su-hyeon(ChosunBiz) · 2026-11-06 09:48 UTC

N.thing Harnesses 1,700-Year Data to Control Plant Components Customizing crops for biotech, boosting CBD in hemp as agricultural foundry

We grew lettuce weighing 500g. We thought it was a significant achievement, but it wasn’t. What customers wanted was lettuce weighing 80–120g, suitable for packaging in a single pack.

‘As the customer desires.’ This was the lesson learned by N.thing, a vertical farming company established in 2014, after repeated trials and errors. N.thing now aims to expand the scope of this ‘customized production’ to include components. The plan is to produce plant-based raw materials with uniform quality for functional foods, natural material-based products, cosmetics, and pharmaceutical companies that require specific components.

Kim Hye-yeon, representative of N.thing, met with ChosunBiz at the ‘2nd Gangneung NP·BIO International Conference’ on the 6th and explained, “Adjusting cultivation conditions such as light, temperature, humidity, and nutrients changes the components of plants,” adding, “It’s similar to how muscles develop when stimulated by exercise.”

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