[Photo] Merchants Waiting for Customers

On the 23rd, ahead of the kimchi-making season, a vendor at the vegetable section of Garak Market in Songpa-gu, Seoul, is trimming napa cabbage as prices of key kimchi ingredients such as napa cabbage and radish surge. Although the Producer Price Index announced by the Bank of Korea for September declined, prices of agricultural products like napa cabbage rose by 5.7%.