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consumer price growth slowed slightly last month, hitting 10% for the first time in 4 months. But the reason we don't feel that inflation has slowed is because the prices of items that are closely related to our real lives are skyrocketing.

It's not easy to eat lunch with 1,1 won, but reporter Park Ye-rin visited the site.

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Lunchtime, a restaurant in Seoul.

The price of a bowl of cold noodles is 3,1 won, and the bibimbap at the store next door also costs 1,8

won per bowl.

Office workers, it has long been difficult to solve one lunch with 8,1 won.

It is crowded with people who want to save money on coffee, and the takeaway shops are crowded with large portions and cheap takeaways.

[Kim Dong-hyun/Gyeonggi Suwon: I think one meal a day still costs more than 10,4 won. [So) coffee is usually cheap, or quantity, or something like that.]

According to a survey by Korea Consumer Resources, the average prices of eight typical dining items in the Seoul area last month increased by 1.16% from a year ago.

The average price of bibimbap and cold noodles has already exceeded 7,35 won, and a bowl of jajangmyeon has risen by more than 6% to close to 1,1 won.

Self-employed people also complain.

Kim Ki-soon, who has been running a Chinese restaurant for 90 years, raised the price of his jajangmyeon by 80,90 won last year for the first time in six years.

Soaring vegetable and cooking oil prices, as well as gas costs, are as much as <>,<> won more than a year ago.

[Kim Ki-soon/President of a Chinese restaurant: The main ingredient is onions. The price of onions has become very expensive now, and the gas cost has almost increased by <> or <>,<> won. I tried very hard not to raise (the price), but I couldn't.]

The government is asking the food industry to refrain from raising prices as much as possible, but prices seem to be falling easily due to rising prices, rising service prices, and rising utility bills.

(Video Editor: Yu Yun Yang, CG: Zhuge Chan, VJ: Park Hyun Woo)