Next month, Koreans celebrate the Lunar New Year holiday of Seollal.
It's when families gather and set up a table of food and drink for ancestral (조상의, 조상으로부터 물려받은) rituals. (의식, 예절, 풍습)
Data show that tradition for a family of four, could cost more than 180 U.S. dollars, an increase of 2.3 percent.
The Korea Price Research Center looked at the price of ingredients at 8 traditional markets around the nation.
Among those, the biggest price spike was for apples, pears and jujubes. (대추)
hey went up by 11.9 percent, 30.2 and 21.1 percent on-year respectively. (각각)
Last year's extreme heatwave is the key reason why.
Vegetable prices remained nearly the same, while meat and imported fish got cheaper.
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