The wholesale price of napa cabbage soared 161 percent on year to 25,760 won ($19.30) per 10 kilos as of Friday, according to the Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corporation.
Korea plans to release its stockpile of vegetables and salt to cope with the lingering inflation for the annual kimchi-making period ahead of winter, the government said Friday.
Napa cabbage is displayed at a wholesale market in Songpa District, southern Seoul, on Thursday. The retail price of napa cabbage, used for making kimchi, increased by 35 percent on-year to 4,588 won ($3.90) per head as of Tuesday.
Visitors purchase napa cabbages, which hit record prices in September following a series of typhoons, at a wholesale market in Gwangju on Monday.
Leafy greens are displayed on the refrigerated shelves of a discount store in Seoul Sunday. The continued heavy rain in Korea is pushing vegetable prices up.
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