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The average retail price of a carton of 30 eggs has climbed back above seven-thousand won, or four dollars and seventy cents, for the first time since late January.
According to the Korea Institute for Animal Products Quality Evaluation on Friday, the average price of 30 eggs stood at seven-thousand-45 won as of Thursday, up 16-point-six percent from a year earlier.
Prices hovered in the range of 67-hundred to 68-hundred won earlier this week before jumping back into the seven-thousand won range.
It marks the first time in about a month and a half that egg prices have exceeded seven-thousand won for a carton of 30.
The average retail price of a carton of ten eggs rose even more sharply to three-thousand-902 won, up 21-point-one percent from a year earlier.
The surge is largely attributed to the continued spread of the highly pathogenic avian influenza, despite additional egg imports from the United States.