Dining out, customers weigh their inflated options
Published: 07 Mar. 2024, 18:35
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- JIN EUN-SOO
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![Tourists to Korea look at the menu outside a restaurant in Jung District, central Seoul, on Thursday. The price of dining out in Korea jumped by 3.8 percent in February compared to the year before, more than the 3.1 percent increase in inflation during the same period, according to Statistics Korea. [YONHAP]](https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/data/photo/2024/03/07/7f47805a-d89f-4901-b002-f3e95f0e0033.jpg)
Tourists to Korea look at the menu outside a restaurant in Jung District, central Seoul, on Thursday. The price of dining out in Korea jumped by 3.8 percent in February compared to the year before, more than the 3.1 percent increase in inflation during the same period, according to Statistics Korea. [YONHAP]
Tourists to Korea look at the menu outside a restaurant in Jung District, central Seoul, on Thursday. The price of dining out in Korea jumped by 3.8 percent in February compared to the year before, more than the 3.1 percent increase in inflation during the same period, according to Statistics Korea. By segment, the price increase in hamburgers was the highest at 8.2 percent, followed by gimbap (seaweed rice rolls) at 6.4 percent.
BY JIN EUN-SOO [[email protected]]
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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