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Friendly economy, today (7th) is also with reporter Kwon Ae-ri.

Reporter Kwon, I sometimes go to the market or mart to go shopping with my children. Recently, the shopping cart price seems to have risen quite a lot. After half a year, the monthly inflation rate rose to the 1% level?



<Reporter>



Yes.

How much inflation has risen compared to a year ago these days, what the National Statistical Office surveyed was announced yesterday, and it has risen just 1% from a year ago.



By the way, there are probably many people who hear the number 1 now and find it hard to believe that only that has risen.



We also talked about anchors now, but I think housewives who are in charge of housekeeping in particular will be tilting their heads, because the items with intensive inflation are concentrated on the most basic ingredients needed to live.



The price of shopping carts for agricultural, livestock, and aquatic products rose the most in almost 10 years and 9 years and 6 months.

After all, the biggest reason seems to be the rainy season and subsequent typhoons that lasted for 54 days.



Vegetables and fruits, which are immediately affected by the weather, are particularly noticeable. The overall average of vegetables has risen by 35% compared to a year ago, which was the main reason for the average price of agricultural products rising close to 20%.



These days, if you go to a fast food chain and order a hamburger, there are many menus without tomatoes.

There are some differences depending on the menu or store.



For hamburgers, after meat and bread, tomato is the key ingredient, rather than cabbage, but I think.

However, it is not easy to obtain tomatoes in large quantities.



This is because the house farmers suffered a lot of damage, so the price of tomatoes soared 55% last month to double that of a year ago, reaching the highest level ever, and the core ingredients of the burger were missing.



So Lotteria has lowered the menu price by 300 won for burgers without tomatoes, and Burger King is responding by saying that it will add other vegetables and sauces while keeping the price.



<Anchor>



Reporter Kwon seems to be angry that the tomato was missing from the hamburger, but there seems to be some items that have risen more than tomatoes.



<Reporter>



Yes.

One cabbage is now over 10,000 won.

It's not where it's expensive, it's the national average retail price.



From before Chuseok to the beginning of this week, I went to around 12,000 won, and yesterday came down to 1,900 won.

It's just twice the normal time this time.



Since the national average price is this, if you go to the market individually and pick up cabbage, there are many cases where you will see a price tag that is more expensive than this.



Radish is almost twice as high as it was a year ago, and it is similar to major green onions, garlic, and heat radish.

And apples and other fruits are still expensive.



As you might have noticed during Chuseok, the fruit set was expensive and it was not easy to choose a quality product.



So, retailers also put more items on the front of the promotion, not apples and pears, but imported fruit sets and other items altogether. .



Vegetables are most affected by the weather, but because the growing period is short, shipments increase as soon as conditions stabilize.



Originally, this time of year is when the prices of vegetables and fruits stabilize.

In normal years.

However, this year, the trend will be delayed by more than a month, but we expect it to appear.



However, agricultural products and aquatic products that are affected by the weather have risen a little, as well as aquatic products, and pork and beef both are up 10% higher than a year ago.



Originally, they were expensive items, so they stood out more. First, the National Statistical Office analyzed that the demand for meat ingredients is steadily increasing as people eat a lot of home food because of the corona.



In addition, in distribution prices, fruit sets were so expensive before and after Chuseok, so the demand for meat sets seems to have worked a little.



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I ate a lot of house food, I ate more meat.

(It means that the price of meat is constantly rising.) This is the price of meat used in ingredients.

Yes sir.

However, if the price increase is concentrated on food like this, I think that if it only rises 1%, the other parts have risen less.



<Reporter>



Yes.

indeed.

There are many such items.

First of all, the economic downturn caused by the corona continues, which also affects prices.

When money goes well or when consumption is active, there are not many signs of rising items that are likely to rise.



Typically, the cost of eating out, because people don't buy anything outside, and because I'm less active, the cost of eating out did not rise much compared to usual.

However, the rise in the price of ingredients played a big part in the rise in the cost of eating out.



In addition, low oil levels, which are closely related to the economic slowdown, are continuing around the world now, and the government's various lowering of public service costs also acted as a factor in lowering prices.



However, there is another item that stands out from the ones that went up last month other than eating.

Housing cost.



When calculating the consumer price, the purchase and sale price of the house is not included, but cheonsei or monthly rent, which can be said to be a real cost, are included.



This rent is on the rise.

In particular, the monthly rent has shown the largest increase in almost four years since November 2016.