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Parents are looking for thin dental masks instead of health masks in hot weather ahead of school. As a result, it is not easy to obtain, and even the price of Chinese products is rising.

Reporter Kim Hyeong-rae was covered.

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middle of the hypermarket store, a dental mask stand was installed.

Recently, as more and more customers are looking for dental masks, the company has repositioned the merchandise location in the middle.

[Yoo Soo-young / Seoul Gangseo-gu: It's much easier to breathe, not sweating.] In the

past week, the sales volume of dental masks for this hypermarket has soared 15% over a week ago.

For children who need to wear a mask all day long before school, there is a growing demand from parents to pack a thin mask, but small masks have not been able to secure enough supplies, so they have not even been admitted.

[Johan Baek / E-Mart Manager: Currently, only large masks are coming in. Small is not yet ipjeom]

[salt wells / Seoul Yangcheon: I'm using Chinese-made dental mask with gungyeojichaek there was also because easy to find anything that is hygienic individual packaging is not easy and difficult to buy -

online, the general large mask Even videos showing how to reduce the size to small have appeared.

On online shopping sites, many people complain that prices are constantly rising, even in China.

As the dental mask became a precious body, voices were also asked to include the dental mask in the amount of public masks.