{"id":3332,"date":"2022-07-21T02:19:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T02:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/?p=3332"},"modified":"2022-07-21T02:24:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T02:24:23","slug":"south-koreans-take-lunch-box-to-beat-soaring-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/south-koreans-take-lunch-box-to-beat-soaring-inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"South Koreans take lunch box to beat soaring inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Big demand for lunch box or packed meals during hard times.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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By Foong Pek Yee<\/div>\n
foongpekyee@gmail.com<\/a><\/div>\n
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They call it lunchflation\u00a0 in South Korea\u00a0 – meaning<\/div>\n
expensive lunch amid soaring inflation.<\/div>\n
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Office workers in particular head to convenience stores instead of restaurants for lunch these days.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Convenience stores offer many types of ready-to-eat meals to meet customers’ preference, and budget.<\/div>\n
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The stores provide microwave ovens for them to heat up their packed meals on the spot.<\/div>\n
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Earlier this week, Arirang News reported a steep climb on monthly sales of lunch box in convenience stores in South Korea since January.<\/div>\n
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A simple meal:\u00a0 But dine- in can be expensive for many South Koreans of late.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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According to Arirang News, popular meals like kimbap (rice rolls) and jjajangmyeon (noodles in thick sauce) in restaurants saw a 9.1% price increase each in the first half of this year, on a year on year basis.<\/div>\n
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A roll of kimbap used to cost about 2,500 won (RM8.50) before and, customers usually order two rolls at least.<\/div>\n
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Said to be the cheapest item in restaurants , kimbap often comes with a bowl of soup and one or two types of banchan (side dish)\u00a0 for each customer.<\/div>\n
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While almost all Korean restaurants provide plain water, some even include coffee free of charge and, the complimentary items are free flow.<\/div>\n
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A common one pot meal like kimchi chigae (kimchee stew) for one person and comes with about three types of banchan (side dish) used to cost about 8,000 won or RM27.<\/div>\n
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I was told\u00a0 that the price has gone up to about 10,000 won (RM34) recently,<\/div>\n
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No longer affordable:\u00a0 Many eat kimbap as a snack when spending is not a concern.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Airang News also highlighted that online sales for quick and easy food items went up by 50% to 70% in the second quarter compared to the first quarter this year alone.<\/div>\n
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And the current situation is not expected to change any time soon.<\/div>\n
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Big demand for lunch box or packed meals during hard times. By Foong Pek Yee foongpekyee@gmail.com They call it lunchflation\u00a0 in South Korea\u00a0 – meaning expensive lunch amid soaring inflation. Office workers in particular head to convenience stores instead of restaurants for lunch these days. \u00a0Convenience stores offer many types of ready-to-eat meals to meet … Continue reading “South Koreans take lunch box to beat soaring inflation”<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[284,283,285,286,287],"class_list":["post-3332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-korean","tag-convenience-stores","tag-inflation","tag-lunch-box","tag-lunch-flation","tag-south-korea"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3332"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3341,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332\/revisions\/3341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}