Prices are attached on a counter of a public bathhouse in downtown Seoul on Monday. The consumer price index for bathhouses rose 14.1 percent on year in May to log the highest increase in 14 years and five months, according to Statistics Korea...
Chung Young-ran, 63, a resident of Chupungnyeong-myeon in Yeongdong County, North Chungcheong, says she has high hopes for a public bathhouse to open in September.
Businesses across the board are recovering from the pandemic, but one type — the public bath — sustained such damage that it's proven fatal in the case of many establishments.
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