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consumer price index in September rose 2.5% from the same month last year, recording a 2% increase for 6 consecutive months. The prices of livestock and fishery products, including eggs, lettuce, and pork, have risen this much compared to a year ago, and the price of raw milk has soared, as well as a lot of industrial products. Jeonse prices also rose 2.4%, the largest increase since November 2017, but the problem is that there are many factors that will further raise prices in the future.



This is reporter Jung Da-eun.



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Along with the rise in international oil prices, the average selling price of gasoline at gas stations nationwide has risen for two weeks in a row, approaching 1,650 won.



[Kang Tae-wook / Yongsan-gu, Seoul: It was full about 80,000 won, but now I have to put in about 90,000 won and 100,000 won. I think it's a little burdensome.]



Oil prices rose 22%, raising the rate of increase in industrial products to 3.4%.



Although the increase rate of agricultural, livestock and fishery products has slowed, it still reached 3.7%.



While the price of fresh vegetables fell, the price of livestock products such as meat, milk and dairy products rose.



It has become difficult to meet the government's target for inflation this year, which was 2%.



The problem is future prices.



Due to regulations such as carbon neutrality, major oil producing countries have neither the will nor the ability to increase their oil production, so international oil prices continue to rise, and energy sources such as natural gas and coal are also skyrocketing day after day.



In addition, the price of raw materials such as non-ferrous metals has soared, and the impact of the collapse of the global supply chain has been added.



[Seo Ji-yong/Professor of Business Administration, Sangmyung University: It seems that inflation factors in the supply part will play a role by the end of the year.

If the consumer



economy

recovers little by little, prices are likely to continue to rise in the beginning of next year if the demand factor works.] The

government's easygoing attitude, which declared price stability throughout the first half and could not even predict the situation a few months later, further exacerbated anxiety. There are also criticisms of encouraging it.



(Video editing: Kim Seon-tak, VJ: Jung Min-goo)