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won-dollar exchange rate jumped 13 won in one day, exceeding 1,340 won at one time.

It is the highest level since the financial crisis of 2009, and there are predictions that it will rise further in the future.



Reporter Kim Jung-woo reports.



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national average price of gasoline, which had exceeded 2,100 won per liter in early summer, has fallen to 1,700 won per liter.



It's been falling without a single day for 54 days in a row, but there are still many people who say it's a burden.



[Jin Yoon-min / Yangcheon-gu, Seoul: These days, if you fill it up, it still feels like you spend about 3,000 or 40,000 won more than before.

Even if it falls, it is still a little more expensive than before, so I still feel it is expensive.]



Consumers expect gas station gas prices to fall as international oil prices fall, but the soaring exchange rate is holding back.



The won-dollar exchange rate jumped 13.9 won in one day and closed at 1,339.8 won.



At one point, it broke through 1,340 won, the highest since the financial crisis.



The exchange rate stabilized for a while, then jumped close to 40 won in 10 days or so.



[Moon Jeong-hee / Deputy Manager of Capital Market Sales Department, KB Kookmin Bank: Not only crude oil prices but also natural gas prices are rising recently.

So, following this rise in energy prices, the dollar exchange rate is also rising, so the typical vicious cycle in which the unit price of imports rises and rises up to the price of imports can be repeated in the end.]



The problem is that the strong dollar phenomenon will get stronger.



The US is considering raising the benchmark interest rate by another 0.75 percentage points next month, and if it does, the dollar will rise further.



As economic conditions worsen in China and Europe, the yuan and euro are weakening.



As the value of the dollar increases as a safe asset, experts predict that it will go up to 1,400 won per dollar.



The high exchange rate raises the price of imports and acts as a destabilizing factor that calms the domestic economy and increases the trade deficit.



(Video editing: Eunjin Choi, VJ: Hyunwoo Park)