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These days, elementary, middle and high school graduation ceremonies are in full swing. Even if you want to give your child a bouquet of flowers, many people are surprised by the price.



Reporter Lim Tae-woo reports that the price of flowers has jumped nearly three times the usual.



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Families are standing outside the school where the graduation ceremony is held with bouquets of flowers.



When I asked how much they bought it, they said that the small bouquet was 30,000 won and the more colorful ones were up to 50,000 won.



[Park Seung-soon / Gangbuk-gu, Seoul: When I usually live here, it was about 30,000 won and 25,000 won. But it seems a bit expensive, if this is 40,000 won.]



[Kim Seon-il / Paju-si, Gyeonggi-do: If you order in the morning and bring it, this neighborhood is not good. And the amount is unconditional over 50,000 won.]



Since the beginning of the elementary, middle and high school graduation ceremony last month, the price of flowers is changing to the highest price every day.



The average wholesale price of a bundle of 10 roses is 22,000 won, which is three times higher than 7,200 won a year ago.



Chrysanthemums and freesias also became three times more expensive.



Protests are pouring in about raising the price of flowers because it is graduation season, and the merchants are also unfair.



[Flower Merchant: What can I do now with 30,000 won? Right now, one rose is about 5,000 won, so now three roses are 15,000 won, right? It means that the unit price is not right at all.]



The reason the price of flowers rose is that the price of oil used for heating rose and the number of foreign workers decreased, leading to an increase in the number of farmers giving up growing flowers.



Income also declined significantly.



[Yangjae Dong Flower Market Official: The plane itself is not flying and not flying even because of Omicron right now, isn't it?

Almost all Chinese, Colombian and Ethiopian products are leading, but they are not coming in.]



The high flower prices are expected to continue until next month, when the university graduation ceremony is held.



(Video coverage: Oh Young-chun, Video editing: Jo Moo-hwan, VJ: Park Hyeon-woo)