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These days, when you go out to eat or go shopping, you can feel that prices have risen a lot.

Following the price of hamburgers and coffee, soju and beer prices are expected to rise, and the price of oil is expected to exceed 1,800 won in Seoul soon.



Reporter Jeong Seong-jin will tell you.



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A kimchi stew in Mok-dong, Seoul.



A lot of soju is sold for accompaniment, but I am worried that the number of customers who have decreased due to Corona will decrease further after hearing the news that the shipping price is going up.



[Kang Hong-ja / Restaurant management: It is very difficult for the self-employed, but the price of soju goes up, so I can only sigh.

If the price goes up, we will inevitably go up.]



Hite Jinro announced that Chamisul and Jinro will raise the factory price by 7.9% starting next Wednesday.



The company cited increases in raw and subsidiary material prices and logistics costs as reasons.



Competitors are also considering raising soju prices.



Considering that the price of soju sold at restaurants increased by about 1,000 won at the time of the factory price increase three years ago, with this increase, a bottle of soju at a restaurant can exceed 5,000 won.



Beer prices are also likely to rise as taxes rise in April.



Oil prices are also on the rise.



Gasoline prices nationwide have been on the rise for four weeks in a row, and in Seoul, they have reached the threshold of 1,800 won per liter.





[Yoo Byung-han / Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul: It seems to have risen by 15 to

20,000 won, and it is fine in the short term, but if it continues in the long term, it will probably become a burden in terms of consumption.]

He said he would consider extending the measures to lower the fuel tax.



In addition, in order to lower the retail price, we decided to promote a plan to raise the special tax reduction rate given to gas stations that are converted to thrifty gas stations by 10 percentage points.



However, it is unclear whether the government's measures will be effective as there is a forecast that oil prices could rise to as high as 150 dollars per barrel due to the global supply shortage and the Ukraine crisis.



(Video coverage: Hwang In-seok and Yoon Hyung, Video editing: Kim Byeong-jik)