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kimchi season in a little while, but the price of vegetables keeps going up. Some say that vegetables are more expensive than meat, and especially lettuce, which is used a lot in hamburgers, is three times more expensive than last year.



Reporter Jeon Yeon-nam will tell you.



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A sandwich shop has temporarily suspended salad sales.



As vegetable prices soar and it becomes difficult to secure supplies, restaurant companies with many menus of vegetable ingredients are in trouble.



[All salads are not enough. There is no exact date, but I'm thinking until mid-November.] The



lettuce in the hamburger is also gone.



[It can be said that there is almost no lettuce in it. I think it will take two weeks.] The



late autumn monsoon followed by the late heat of this year caused a lot of damage from diseases, but the amount of vegetables fell sharply due to the sudden cold wave this month.



In the case of lettuce, which has decreased by nearly 70% compared to the previous year, the price of lettuce is three times higher than last year.



The price of leafy vegetables such as lettuce, sesame leaves, spinach, and Chinese cabbage continues to rise.



Lettuce grew 1.4 times in one week, and it is five times more expensive than last year.



Perilla leaves also rose 1.6 times from last week and more than double from a year ago.



Restaurants that were trying to catch up by increasing the amount of ingredients prepared ahead of the daily recovery are also on the rise.



[Lee Mi-sook / Restaurant management: I think vegetables are more expensive than meat.

We usually bought about 30,000 won for a box of lettuce, but now it's about 80,000 won...

The price of yachaet is holding back.] The



price of cabbage this fall is also expected to rise due to a decrease in production, and seasoning ingredients such as garlic and red pepper powder are also on the rise.



Ahead

of the

Kimchi season, the government is taking measures to stabilize supply and demand, such as increasing the supply of vegetables such as cabbage and radishes. We plan to implement it.



(Video coverage: Kim Hak-mo, video editing: Kim Seon-tak)