[Economy pick] 100 won for a sesame leaf?an unfeasible 1% price

[Anchor]
The second issue is 100 won per sesame leaf?It's a price in the 1% range that you can't feel.

Is the price in the 1% range right now?

[Reporter]
It may not be easy to feel, but the announcement by the National Statistical Office is.

Consumer prices rose 1.6% last month from a year ago.The

1% increase is the first in 3 years and 6 months.

Oil prices fell 7.6% in large part.

Oil prices have dragged down the entire price.

Prices have been in the 2% range since April this year, but they have fallen further to the 1% range last month.

However, as you said, consumers say it is difficult to feel it.

[Kim Youngja / Samsong-dong, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do: I'm scared to put my shopping cart in. I'm scared.]

[Bae In-gyu / Galhyeon-dong, Seoul: I used to think it was okay to go grocery shopping without thinking, but these days, I think there are things I buy while thinking more about grocery shopping. on the rise of prices]

[Anchor]
Hasn't the price of vegetables gone up to the point where it costs more than 20,000 won for a cabbage, and 100 won for a perilla leaf?

[Reporter]
That's right.

The price of vegetables such as cabbage and spinach has risen sharply as production has decreased due to the heat wave this summer.

The vegetable price index rose 18.6% last month from a month ago, according to the National Statistical Office.

In particular, the rise in items vulnerable to high temperatures was remarkable.

Cabbage 44.1%, spinach 42.6%, paprika 64%, tomatoes 35.5%
As vegetable prices rose like this
, the government was also on alert to control supply and demand.

We are paying more attention to the supply of cabbage because the southern part of the country, the autumn cabbage plantation, was damaged by heavy rain last month.


Highland cabbage will be shipped by this month, but we decided to induce early shipments of autumn cabbage because we thought the supply was insufficient.

In this regard, let's hear the remarks of Deputy Prime Minister for Economy Choi Sang-mok.

[Choi Sang-mok / Deputy Prime Minister for Economy: To stabilize the supply and demand of cabbages, we will supply an additional 10,000 tons by early shipment of available government supplies and expanding imports, and extend the allocation tariff on cabbages and radishes, which is scheduled to end at the end of this month, until the end of the year to ease the burden of shopping carts.]

The government plans to release 10 million tons to the market by increasing government imports by 1,000 tons and private imports to 3,000 tons, on top of the government imports already brought in 6,000 tons of early shipments of cabbage in autumn.

Private imports were usually 1,000 tons, but we decided to triple it to 3,000 tons by supporting logistics costs.

On the other hand, fruit prices are stable.

The fruit price index is down 6.9% from a month ago, with production increasing this year.