From Left to Right: Steven Yoon, Principal and Chief Marketing Officer, Bassetts Korea Co., Ltd. with Michael Strange, President, Bassetts Ice Cream in South Korea store

“I am certain that my great, great-grandfather would be both amazed and proud that Bassetts Ice Cream is now available on the opposite side of the world,” said Michael Strange, President of Bassetts Ice Cream.

In 1861, using a mule-turned churn on his farm in Salem New Jersey, Lewis Dubois Bassett invented what would become America’s oldest ice cream – Bassetts. And it’s safe to say that Mr. Bassett was not thinking of selling his ice cream to South Korea or anywhere outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,  at that time. Read More