T-shirts are displayed behind a glass wall of a clothing store in Myeong-dong, central Seoul, on Tuesday. Prices of clothes and shoes in May rose eight percent on year to log the highest rate of increase in 31 years, according to Statistics Korea.
T-shirts are displayed behind a glass wall of a clothing store in Myeong-dong, central Seoul, on Tuesday. Prices of clothes and shoes in May rose eight percent on year to log the highest rate of increase in 31 years, according to Statistics Korea. T-shirt prices jumped 14.3 percent and glove prices by 18.1 percent, outpacing Korea's overall consumer price that climbed 3.3 percent, a seven-month low, last month. [YONHAP]
![T-shirts are displayed behind a glass wall of a clothing store in Myeong-dong, central Seoul, on Tuesday. Prices of clothes and shoes in May rose eight percent on year to log the highest rate of increase in 31 years, according to Statistics Korea. T-shirt prices jumped 14.3 percent and glove prices by 18.1 percent, outpacing Korea's overall consumer price that climbed 3.3 percent, a seven-month low, last month. [YONHAP]](https://img1.daumcdn.net/thumb/R658x0.q70/?fname=https://t1.daumcdn.net/news/202306/06/koreajoongangdaily/20230606181200736sjev.jpg)