올해 설 차례상 차리는데 20만4천원…작년보다 2.3%↑<br /><br />Next month, Koreans celebrate the Lunar New Year holiday of Seollal.<br />It's when families gather and set up a table of food and drink for ancestral rituals.<br />Data show that tradition for a family of four, could cost more than 180 U.S. dollars,... an increase of 2-point-3 percent.<br />The Korea Price Research Center looked at the price of ingredients at 8 traditional markets around the nation.<br />Among those, the biggest price spike was for apples, pears and jujubes.<br />They went up by 11-point-9 percent, 30-point-2 and 21-point-1 percent on-year respectively.<br />Last year's extreme heatwave is the key reason why.<br />Vegetable prices remained nearly the same, while meat and imported fish got cheaper. <br />
