Due to the unusually long rainy season this summer, the stock prices are soaring.

According to the Korea Agriculture and Fisheries Food Distribution Corporation today (27th), the prices of major vegetables that fill our summer table, such as cabbage, lettuce, green pumpkin, and heat radish, have jumped up to more than double the average year.

The price of cabbage (hereinafter based on retail and product) recorded 9,317 won per abandonment on the 25th, up 2.5 times from 3,601 won a year ago, and the lettuce that keeps the meat side was 2,275 won per 100g, 1,387 a year ago. It has risen 1.6 times the original.

During the same period, the price of zucchini, which is a must-have for various stew, has doubled from 1,434 won to 2,974 won per piece, and the price of yeolmu rose 29% from 3,401 won per kilogram to 4,386 won.

When the situation turned out like this, some of the food and restaurant industries are in a state of'fire on their feet'.

Daesang Jonggajip, the No. 1 kimchi company in the kimchi industry, has stopped selling Yulmu Kimchi, which is considered a'summer delicacy' at the official shopping mall'Jeongwon e-Shop'.

Daesang Jonggajip announced that "Yeolmu harvesting is sluggish due to inundation in the mountains due to the longest rainy season in 2020," and "We will temporarily stop selling Yulmu Kimchi because of extreme damage to the production centers and workplaces."

An official at the target closing house said, "We have blocked the garden e-shop, which has a relatively small portion of sales due to lack of materials than usual. We are supplying discount stores, online, home shopping, etc., which many consumers visit, as usual. Sales resume of garden e-shop is when sales resume. I don't know yet."

A dessert shop in Jongno-gu, Seoul, has not taken orders for strawberry-related menus this month.

The store said, "It is difficult to order strawberry-related menus as the supply of strawberries in highland summer has been stopped due to the rainy season."

In the online space where restaurant owners gathered, there were also articles complaining about the difficulties caused by the recent rise in vegetable prices.

One store manager said, "We make kimchi by ourselves and make broth with vegetable and chicken, but only laugh comes out while looking at the market." "I said, "I said.

Another restaurant owner wrote, "When the prices of vegetables were low, there were no customers, so the goods were spoiled, so I threw them all away, but now that some customers try to come, the vegetables are extremely expensive."

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