"10kg of kimchi, 20,000 won."'Buy new kimchi' due to soaring cabbage prices.

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While the number of so-called "Kimpo people" who give up kimchi is increasing as cabbage prices soar, "Kimchi fraud" has recently been rampant online.

I bought kimchi after seeing an advertisement that sold 10kg of domestic kimchi for 29,900 won, but most of them say that kimchi was not delivered and lost contact with the company.

It is believed that not a few people bought it at a lower price than the kimchi brand Pogi Kimchi sold on the market.

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Online communities and mom cafes said, "I wondered because I only received deposits without a bank account, but it was a fraud. It seems that a lot of people have been victimized right now, and the victims continue to comment, such as, "I had to buy it cheaply, but I got scammed," and, "It seems that kimchi is something that should never be paid attention to because it is cheap."

The company is believed to have abandoned fraud by posting advertisements on major websites such as Naver, Kakao Talk, and Carrot Market that sell kimchi and other agricultural products cheaply, attracting consumers to its sales mall.

Naver and others are known to have received reports of consumer damage and started taking follow-up measures, such as blocking advertisements from the company.

Reporter Park Sun-young of Digital News Team