Workers move napa cabbage for auction at Garak Market in Songpa District, southern Seoul, on July 15.
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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