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![An employee shows different soccer balls to a customer at a department store in downtown Seoul on Tuesday. With the lifting of Covid-19 social distancing regulations and the warming weather, outdoor sports equipment sales have seen a sharp increase. According to Emart, sales of sports goods including items relating to tennis and badminton saw a 40 percent year-on-year increase last month. Soccer goods sales were up 45 percent. Sales of swimsuits, swimming googles and other water-related items surged 117 percent while aquatic sports goods including surfing boards spiked 423 percent. [YONHAP]](https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/data/photo/2022/06/07/9deeeba5-a220-449b-9411-24d7fca3f888.jpg)
An employee shows different soccer balls to a customer at a department store in downtown Seoul on Tuesday. With the lifting of Covid-19 social distancing regulations and the warming weather, outdoor sports equipment sales have seen a sharp increase. According to Emart, sales of sports goods including items relating to tennis and badminton saw a 40 percent year-on-year increase last month. Soccer goods sales were up 45 percent. Sales of swimsuits, swimming googles and other water-related items surged 117 percent while aquatic sports goods including surfing boards spiked 423 percent. [YONHAP]
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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