<Anchor> As



the Lunar New Year holiday approaches next month, there are many places where you can order gift sets in advance.

However, even if the order was received, there were not enough boxes to send with gifts, so it became more urgent for companies to get the boxes.

Taking advantage of this situation, there are even vendors who stock up on stocks and sell boxes at high prices.



First, reporter Jeon Yeon-nam will tell you about the situation.



<Reporter>



Choi In-ho, who has been selling party supplies online for over 10 years, checks the inventory of shopping companies that sell boxes dozens of times a day.




[Choi In-ho/Online shopping mall operation: I have several famous sites, but all of the sites are out of stock right now, so (I can't buy it.) (Even if there are quantities left), the price is already three times higher...

.] The



box is running out, but it takes 2 to 3 weeks for the ordered box to arrive, so I feel impatient before the new year.



We are also collecting discarded boxes in case you cannot deliver them.



[Choi Inho/Online shopping mall operation: (because we can't pack party supplies in plastic), there is only way to get and send discarded waste paper or waste paper boxes.

This is the first time I have been worried that the product will not be available because there is no box.]




Notices were posted at various post offices in Seoul stating that it was difficult to supply boxes, and outside sales were limited to small quantities.



[Post Office Officer: (I...I'm sure I'm going to buy a box.) We'll give you one or two, but it's hard to get a lot of them.

Box supply is a little difficult for us too...

.] Even in the



box wholesale market, it is a star picking in the sky to get a box if it is not in stock.



[Box Wholesale Distributors officials. Deurindago contact you as soon as wear (quantity because cap) deurineunde the word, Joe just a shame I could not able to say, when is]



box shortage is worse moat hoarding boxes to stockpile volume There were even vendors who sold them at high prices.



[Box manufacturer officials: There are people who take 20,000 or 30,000 copies of the box (box) and hand it over to others (at an expensive price) like this.]



(Video coverage: Kim Hyun-sang, video editing: Soyoung Lee, VJ: Hyunwoo Park)