Lunar New Year goods prices are…"Wagyu beef and eggs are expensive, but agricultural products are stable."

(Seoul=Yonhap News) Reporter Han Ju-hong = Ahead of the Lunar New Year, prices of agricultural products such as cabbage, radish, and fruits among the 16 government-managed Lunar New Year products are generally stable compared to last year, while prices of livestock products such as Hanwoo beef and eggs remain high. The 16 Lunar New Year products are cabbage, radish, apple, pear, chestnut, jujube, Hanwoo beef, pork, chicken, egg, pollack, squid, mackerel, hairtail, sand eel, and dried anchovy. According to the Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corporation (aT), the Livestock Product Quality Evaluation Institute, and the Central Federation of Forest Cooperatives, as of the 5th, the retail price of a head of cabbage is 4,641 won, down 8.5% from a year ago but up 32.6% from the average price of the past three years excluding the highest and lowest prices from 2021 to last year. The average price is the three-year average excluding the highest and lowest prices from 2021 to last year. ...