{"id":3447,"date":"2022-09-03T09:46:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T09:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/?p=3447"},"modified":"2022-09-04T12:12:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T12:12:58","slug":"the-week-before-mid-autumn-festival-or-chuseok-in-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/the-week-before-mid-autumn-festival-or-chuseok-in-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Run-up to Mid- Autumn festival in South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0Food prices have gone up by an average of 28% ,<\/strong><\/div>\n
\u00a0and a super typhoon on the way.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Sept 3, 2022<\/strong><\/div>\n
By Foong Pek Yee<\/div>\n
foongpekyee@gmail.com<\/a><\/div>\n
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Ahead of Chuseok coming Saturday, South Koreans are set for a simple celebration.<\/div>\n
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Soaring food prices saw Chuseok or Mid -Autumn festival sales all time low since the Asian financial crisis 25 years ago.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0The\u00a0 four-day holiday to thank ancestors for a bountiful harvest is the second biggest festival after Seollah (South Korean lunar new year).<\/div>\n
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By tradition, many South Koreans from Seoul with a population of about 10 million, will return to their hometown to celebrate Chuseok with their elders.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0But Typhoon Hinnamnor, along with strong winds and heavy rain,\u00a0 and\u00a0 is expected to hit the country in the next two days, is a cause for concern.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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The Korean Herald reported yesterday that the typhoon\u00a0 is set to hit the southern part of the country including Jeju Island.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Quoting the state weather agency, it said the typhoon’s trajectory however will only become clearer by tomorrow.<\/div>\n
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Update Sept 4 evening: Arirang News reported that Typhoon Hinnamnor is due to arrive in South Korea by Tuesday morning (Sept 6), quoting the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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It also reported on the cancellation of\u00a0 Monday flights in and out of Busan and\u00a0 Jeju Island.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Jeju Island, and the Jeolla and Gyeongsang Provinces are put on high alert.<\/div>\n
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The oncoming typhoon also saw public hiking trails in South Korea closed to the general public\u00a0 until further notice.<\/div>\n
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Arirang News reported yesterday that people are spending less for\u00a0 Chuseok this year, with prices of major food items like vegetables up by almost 28% from a year earlier.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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And the price for napa cabbage used to make kimchi has shot up by about 80%.<\/div>\n
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Sales for must have food items for Chuseok memorial tables also took a plunge.<\/div>\n
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Arirang News quoted a trader saying the price for dried fish for the memorial tables has went up by 500 won, and traditional sweets that used to cost 5,000 won are now 6,000 won.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Ahead of Chuseok and to ease the burden on the people, Arirang News said the government will release about 4,000 tons of goods in high demand, including cabbage and garlic from its\u00a0 stockpile.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Food prices have gone up by an average of 28% , \u00a0and a super typhoon on the way. Sept 3, 2022 By Foong Pek Yee foongpekyee@gmail.com Ahead of Chuseok coming Saturday, South Koreans are set for a simple celebration. Soaring food prices saw Chuseok or Mid -Autumn festival sales all time low since the Asian … Continue reading “Run-up to Mid- Autumn festival in South Korea”<\/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":[99,306,283,310,308,307,309],"class_list":["post-3447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-korean","tag-busan","tag-chuseok-hoilday","tag-inflation","tag-jeju-island","tag-low-key","tag-mid-autumn-festival","tag-typhoon-hinnamnor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447","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=3447"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3464,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions\/3464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}