Spinach Is Up 152% in a Month. It's Also Cheaper Than It Was Last August.
Korean vegetable prices produced a genuinely alarming number this month: spinach at ₩1,978 per 100g on 7 August, up from ₩784 four weeks earlier. Both figures are real and we pulled them ourselves. But spinach is currently 15% cheaper than it was a year ago and below the five-year normal — and the agriculture ministry has taken the unusual step of asking people to stop making the comparison that produced the headline.
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