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Anxious citizens are in a hurry to help. When I heard that Incheon may not be the only one, the purchase of filters, water purifiers, and bottled water used in faucets is increasing significantly.

Reporter Labor Gyu reports.

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is a large supermarket in Seoul. Sales of new showers and filters for taps have skyrocketed in recent days.

Some products have already been sold out.

This is because the number of consumers who purchase and install products that directly filter foreign substances has increased as reports of larvae have been found in tap water.

[Citizen: It is not yet accurate to say that the larvae were found in Seoul, but you are anxious. In particular, my house has a baby… The Internet was already out of stock, so I brought my baby in a hurry.] In a

large supermarket in Incheon where caterpillars were found in the water purification plant, sales of water supplies, such as filter showers and kitchen thinkheads, surged nearly 10 times in the past week.

Water purifier sales have also increased more than five times.

[Kim Dong-hwan/E-Mart Mokdong Branch Sales Manager: The number of people who use it has increased a lot. Due to the new'larvae problem', there are a lot of customers inquire about filter products in stores.]

Sales of related products are also increasing rapidly in online shopping malls.

The filter installed in the shower is designed to filter out impurities over 5㎛.

As water purifiers for home use can filter out materials of 0.1 µm or more, it is the position of water purifier companies that if there is a filter replacement cycle, there is no problem in drinking.

However, as unstable consumers seek bottled water as a substitute for tap water, sales of bottled water are also increasing rapidly.