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Let's start with Kwon Ae-ri's friendly economy. Kwon, I just briefly introduced you at the morning briefing corner.

<Reporter>

Let me look at the picture first. That sky blue empty bottle pile, HITEJINRO's new bottles of Suzhou's new bottles released last spring.

However, it is not piled up at the Hite Jinro factory, but it is piled up like that at Lotte liquor factories.

It is estimated that more than 3.5 million bottles of sky blue bottles of that path are accumulated on Lotte's side.

Hite Jinro "return our empty bottles." LOTTE Liquor is fighting the war, "It can't be done until the soju companies have a new discussion."

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What does Lotte Liquor say is said to have a huge amount of soju bottles?

<Reporter>

Yes, this situation can only be understood by knowing how Koreans most commonly drink alcohol and soju bottles.

Soju bottles are not just thrown away. Retrieve, clean and reuse. Usually, about 7-8 times, one bottle will last.

If you throw it away once, it will be a huge waste and a bottle of soju costs about 1,000 won. It is known that it costs about 300 won to make a new glass bottle.

So even if soju companies think about the cost, they need to rewrite the empty bottle many times. The country also encourages reuse in environmental protection.

But how do these empty bottles go back to soju companies? The owners put the empty soju bottles left in the plastic box that the soju was delivered to, and each soju company takes their brand plastic box through the wholesale center. .

If you bring it, we might have an empty bottle, but a competitor's empty bottle. Soju is the same green bottle if you remove this company or that paper label. So if it's not ours, we wash it and label it and use it again.

Ten years ago, soju companies signed an agreement to unify the specifications of soju bottles.

By the way, the transparent sky blue bottle you saw earlier, but you have to go back to Hite Jinro, but you can use it again. The problem started right here. Lotte Liquor is difficult to return without new consultation.

<Anchor>

So it's expensive to find the bottles and send them out. This is the story.

<Reporter>

Yes. That is the position of Lotte.

When the first blue-blue bottle was released, I didn't take it to the career side when there were only a few bottles, but since it's popular, I'm selling more than 3 million bottles a month while increasing the production. In the same way, the order of the same disease is broken.

So let's all talk about going back to autonomy or keeping the Green Disease Convention. Hite Jinro, on the other hand, is an autonomous agreement in the first place, and this is the position to return each other.

In fact, apart from Hite Jinro and Lotte Liquor, which are the first and second in the industry, other soju companies are not much less likely to use green bottles. These bottles are collected together, but until now companies have returned each other.

Of course, the sales volume of Jinro light blue shochu is very different from small companies. Lotte is making it a problem, and some environmental groups are against this sky blue disease.

However, Hite Jinro also said that 10 years ago, before Lotte took over Doosan Liquor, Jinro and Guosan signed a separate agreement to pay 10.5 won per bottle for sorted bottles.

Jinro has returned Cheongha bottles that are different from Lotte's Cheongha soju bottles. Cheongha sells well. Last year alone, 12 million bottles were returned to Lotte.

Therefore, as the existing green bottle soju is still Hite Jinro and Lotte, both of them are the first and the second, the autonomous development should be acknowledged.

Which hands would you like to drink soju? The Ministry of Environment believes that both companies make sense.

It's true that this retro bottle design is part of the popularity of the Jean-Loose bag. If this atmosphere spreads, and if the existing green bottle agreement is too old, it's an environmental concern.

On the contrary, autonomy, marketing, and consumer choice are also important. Recently, soju companies met with the Ministry of Environment several times to discuss the matter.

This week we are gathering our position. Viewers wonder how best to deal with this issue?