Water prices
![Bottles of mineral water are displayed at a store in Seoul on Monday. In June, the consumer price index for bottled water rose by 10.8 percent compared to the same period last year, reaching an 11-year high of 112.09. This comes as the companies behind mineral water brands like Lotte Chilsung Beverage, the parent company of Icis, and Jeju Province Development Corporation, behind Samdasoo, raised their wholesale prices by an average of 8.4 percent and 9.8 percent, respectively, for their products. [YONHAP]](https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/data/photo/2023/07/10/118bb599-3601-4a3a-9da2-46ec760589fc.jpg)
Bottles of mineral water are displayed at a store in Seoul on Monday. In June, the consumer price index for bottled water rose by 10.8 percent compared to the same period last year, reaching an 11-year high of 112.09. This comes as the companies behind mineral water brands like Lotte Chilsung Beverage, the parent company of Icis, and Jeju Province Development Corporation, behind Samdasoo, raised their wholesale prices by an average of 8.4 percent and 9.8 percent, respectively, for their products. [YONHAP]
BY SEO JI-EUN [seo.jieun1@joongang.co.kr]
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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