In order to preserve Chinese cabbage for a long time, Koreans also fell in love with eating pickled vegetables. Cabbage occupies a vital position on the Korean table, so Korea, as a prosperous country, sometimes has to buy expensive cabbage.
Kimchi enjoys a high reputation all over the world. Koreans often have all kinds of kimchi on their tables, most of which are Chinese cabbage. There are often all kinds of pickles on the daily table in South Korea, so that Koreans are ridiculed by China for having pickles on the table.
For them, kimchi is the foundation of their survival. In Korean homes, there is even a refrigerator for storing kimchi. Koreans can't live without kimchi for a day just as China can't live without steamed bread and rice.
It stands to reason that kimchi is the most indispensable thing for the Korean people and a real need, so the price of Chinese cabbage should be very common, but strangely, the price of Chinese cabbage, the raw material of Korean kimchi, is not cheap.
Recently, the price of Korean cabbage has risen, which has caused a large number of Koreans to cry for survival difficulties, and even once there was a situation where they could not afford to eat cabbage.
As a prosperous country, the per capita GDP of South Korea is much higher than that of China. Why can't Koreans afford Chinese cabbage, which is very cheap in China? In fact, it is an exaggeration to say that you can't afford it at all, but the high price of Korean cabbage is really surprising. According to Korean media reports, Korean cabbage can even be sold to 62 yuan, which shocked China netizens.
If the usual consumption of vegetables is accidental, it is still affordable, but cabbage is a vegetable that Koreans can't live without at any time. The price in 62 yuan was once unacceptable to many ordinary Korean families.
The reason why Korean cabbage has such a high price is mainly because of the particularity of 2020, which is a very special year. According to the observation data, the World Health Organization issued a document saying that 2020 is the warmest year on record, due to the rising temperature and the transformation of El Ni? o and La Ni? a phenomena in the second half of the year. Compared with previous years, the climate in many parts of the world presents unstable and diverse changes.
Disasters are increasing all over the world. Due to the influence of locust plague and fire in Australia, global food production has dropped sharply. A series of disasters have destroyed agriculture so fatally that some central governments even put forward a food crisis.
The outbreak of these situations has led to the high price of cabbage. In 2020, the overall economy of South Korea tends to deteriorate, and the double impact of the epidemic and the economy will make people's lives worse. Coupled with the rising price of Chinese cabbage, it has caused great social problems for a time.
Due to the price increase of raw cabbage, many restaurants in South Korea that offer free kimchi have also cancelled the free service of kimchi. The price of kimchi, which can be seen everywhere, has risen sharply, and tomatoes and cabbage in hamburgers have been quietly withdrawn. According to reliable data, Korean cabbage in 2020 increased by 40% compared with 20 19.
Seoul, the capital of Korea, is one of the cities with high cost of living in the world. Although the wages of local people are also high, compared with the high cost of living, the material life of Koreans is not very rich. In addition, many things in Korea are imported, so the high price of vegetables, fruits and meat has become a long-standing problem in Korea.
It is puzzling that the price of cabbage has risen so much that the Korean government has not made any efforts. The situation in Korea is very complicated. In addition to the dominance of the government, their society is also related to many chaebol. All walks of life in Korea are ruled by different chaebols. Some people say that South Korea is a society controlled by chaebol.
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Korean government has also realized the problem that food cannot be self-sufficient. They adjusted their agricultural policies several times and began to develop agriculture to deal with the problem of national rations, so that the agricultural population once reached 80% of the national population.
At that time, the output could even meet the national demand. However, with the intervention of the chaebol, the national economic center of gravity began to adjust to industrialization. Coupled with the huge gap between urban and rural areas, more and more farmers began to give up their careers and enter cities, resulting in a sharp decline in the output of agricultural products in South Korea.
In order to subsidize agriculture and encourage everyone to farm, the Korean government has set the highest agricultural product subsidy standard in the world, but these problems have not improved the high agricultural product prices in South Korea. Due to the progress of government subsidy policy, Korean farmers' associations often organize demonstrations to protest against the government's import of agricultural products, thus ensuring the prices of their products. This policy of the Korean government can be said to be counterproductive, and even promoted the rise of agricultural products prices in South Korea.
With South Korea's entry into WTO, the complete consumption pattern of industrialized agriculture in Europe and America makes it difficult for foreign agriculture in South Korea to resist, even with government subsidies, it can't be sustained, and South Korea's agriculture is a fiasco.
Therefore, South Korea has to import a large number of foreign agricultural products, which will inevitably lead to an increase in product prices. According to the statistics of relevant institutions, the market price of Korean agricultural products with the same quality is about 2.5 times higher than the international average price under normal circumstances.
The situation in China, which is adjacent to South Korea, is quite different. Because Shandong, China is close to South Korea, many Koreans have lived or traveled in Shandong. When they come to Shandong, they just need to walk into the vegetable market, and they will be surprised by the richness of the dishes and the affordable prices.
Since 1988, the South Korean government has started to build a "vegetable basket project" to handle the supply and prices of vegetables, egg products, dairy products and meat that people need daily, so the prices of agricultural products between China and China are quite different.
China is vast in territory and abundant in natural resources, rich in products, and self-sufficient in various foods. In addition, China pays attention to people's livelihood, and has formulated a red line of1.800 million mu of cultivated land, so that ordinary people can buy the agricultural products they need at normal prices, and avoid China people from falling into the same predicament as Koreans.