(Seoul=Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Yoon-gu = "Glutinous rice costs 400,000 won per 80 kg bag. Last year, it was around 240,000 won, so it has almost doubled." On the 26th, the owner of a rice cake shop in Mapo, Seoul, hesitated to answer when asked how much they paid for rice, a main ingredient in rice cakes, and only provided the answer after checking the rice purchase invoice. He said, "I don't remember the rice price accurately because the price has risen so much that looking at it causes stress, so I avoid it." This shop owner mentioned that the price of non-glutinous rice also increased, though not as much as glutinous rice, by almost 100,000 won per bag. He explained that glutinous rice is used to make rice cakes such as baek-seolgi, garae-tteok, honey rice cakes, and songpyeon, while non-glutinous rice is used to make injeolmi and yakbap. The shop owner said, "Rice cake shops can't easily raise prices because customers complain a lot, so we try to bear the burden. We have to ...