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Kim Jang-cheol was short, and this year's cabbage jumped nearly twice as much as last year.

It was because of the severe typhoon that followed, but how was the production of cabbage, reporter Park Chan-keun visited.

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There are spoiled cabbages in the cabbage field where mature cabbages should line up.

At first glance, things look fine, the leaves are yellow and the roots are rotten.

This 10,000 square meter field was supposed to harvest about 40,000 kimchi cabbages.

However, as the typhoon swept through three times, it is now difficult to find a good cabbage.

Because of the strong winds and heavy rains caused by ring rings and heavy rice, the cabbage roots could not be firmly rooted, so they could not raise enough nutrients after the storm.

[Park Kwang-hee / Sanyi Nonghyup Managing Director: I need to absorb nutrients, but I can't. The product is not at all.]

In October this year, Chinese cabbage production was 241,000 tons, down 16.6% from a year earlier.

Prices have nearly doubled last year as supply declined significantly.

In this situation, the distribution industry explains that more and more customers are looking for pickled cabbage and packaged kimchi, which is similar in price to last year.

[Kwak Seung-gyu / manager of a large-scale mart: I have secured the quantity by advance reservation. In the case of pickled cabbage and kimchi, the price remains the same as the average year.]

The farmers who have to throw away the cabbage they have grown up are also deeply troubled by the families ahead of Kimjang.