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From today (1st), electricity and gas rates will rise sharply.

Based on a family of four, it seems that you will have to pay about 7,600 won a month more than now.

As two of the representative public utility rates are raised at the same time, the already-rising prices could rise even more.



This is reporter Jae Hee-won.



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Bossam shop in Seoul.



The gas fire never goes out because the meat is boiled all day.



The current monthly city gas bill is around 350,000 won.



With this decision to increase, you will have to pay more than 400,000 won in gas bills from this month.



[Yoon Won-il / Bossam shop operation: (Food ingredients) are often doubled.

It's too hard to go up here and then to the utility bills.]



As the city gas rate for home use increased by 15.9%, the average gas rate per household in Seoul was 39,380 won per month, an additional 5,400 won.



Electricity rates also go up.



KEPCO decided to raise the expected increase by 2.5 won per kWh to 4.9 won per kWh.



A four-person household that uses 307 kWh per month will pay an additional 2,270 won.



You have to pay about 7,600 won per month for electricity and gas, and close to 8,500 won including tax.



[Go In-sik / Yangcheon-gu, Seoul: When other prices rise, we eat less and use less, but gas and electricity are the basics of life.

The psychological burden is likely to be very high.] The



government explained that the rate hike was inevitable as KEPCO suffered a loss of 14 trillion won and Korea Gas Corporation lost 5 trillion won in the first half alone due to a surge in international energy prices.



This year's increase is the last, but it is expected that the increase will be even bigger as they said they will reflect the cost from next year.



[Lee Chang-yang / Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy: Energy prices skyrocketed, and an emergency situation equivalent to the oil shock of the 70s is underway.

We will normalize energy rates in stages so that the price function will work.] With



this public rate increase, the consumer price inflation rate is expected to rise by 0.3 percentage points more.