[Economy pick] Cabbage prices are going down...A 'honey tip' to make kimchi cheap.

[Anchor]
Is the price of cabbage finally going down?

[Reporter]
I've been covering cabbage for months. I'm going to show you the graphic. It was last September. As it approached 10,000 won at the end of September, I prepared the article while waiting for 10,000 won to go the next day, but it fell. After that, it started to come down, and what I'm marking now marked is exactly 1,000 won each. It went down a lot in October, and after going down to 4,800 won in November, now it's around 3,000 won, and today I looked at it, it's 3,198 won, and it's 2,000 won right now. However, compared to last year, it is still 19-20% expensive. Autumn cabbage will be shipped and the government will release the contract cultivation volume, and the discount event will continue until the 4th of next month, so it is expected to fall further in the future. So why don't we make kimchi a little slower? I'd like to make this suggestion.

[Anchor]
Then when should I make kimchi this year? If it gets too cold, we can't do it again.

[Reporter]
That's right. When I went there last week, a lot of people gathered to make kimchi. I really bought this much cabbage, and I asked. When I asked where the price affected the most when making kimchi, he said, "It's cabbage." Cabbage prices are falling, but they are still high. I'll show you a graphic about the price of kimchi now, but when I looked into the cost of making kimchi for a family of four, it's 331,500 won in the traditional market, which is 10% higher than last year. The price of cabbage is 19%, so if you calculate it, it seems right. Because other kimchi ingredients have fallen. This is the 15th of last Friday's investigation. Compared to this time, the price of cabbage is about 60 won lower now.

As a result, it seems that the cost of making kimchi will decrease further, but I told you that I met him on the spot, but there were a lot of people saying that the quality of cabbage is not good when choosing cabbage. So it was a time when you were choosing it very carefully, but now I see that the institution that surveyed the price of kimchi is behind it after one to two weeks, about 14 days, with a little stomach and little moisture. Because of the unusually high temperature, you can think of cabbage coming out later than usual, and the price is expected to stabilize more as shipments to Honam, the largest production area, are in full swing, so I think our husbands should wait just a week or two before making kimchi and making kimchi.

[Anchor]
They sell pickled cabbage at the mart. They sell a lot of pickled cabbage.

[Reporter]
If the price of pickled cabbage is around 20,000 won, it's very cheap, but it's already used up. If you buy it, it's about 40,000 won, but you don't buy a lot of this either. But pickled cabbage itself is still on sale, so watch the price.

[Anchor]
It would be better to do it in a week or two.

[Reporter]
That's right.

[Anchor]
I see. Thank you very much.