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[xCustomx]

1 gallon of milk in the US goes for about $3, but it's more than $7 here. Some GS25s and Buy the Ways are charging 1,500won for 500ml of milk. I know Seoul Milk has raised their prices twice this year due to an increase in cattle feed costs, but I still have a hard time paying this much for milk, especially since it costs more than a liter of gasoline.

[yingwenlaoshi]

Because it's shitty.

[IncognitoHFX]

[prideofidaho]

Soy milk's pretty cheap...and tastes better...but sometimes a little too sweet.

I don't really like the taste of the milk here anyway...not a bit milk fan to begin with.

At first I thought maybe you were just being a little compain-y, but then I figured there are people who can't get enough milk...drinking big glasses of it and junk.

[pkang0202]

[yingwenlaoshi]

[jay-shi]

[IncognitoHFX]

[xCustomx]

[cruisemonkey]

The same reason beef is so expensive - there's no grazing land. Anywhere one could have raised cattle was turned into a rice paddy thousands of years ago.

[KYC]

Yep not a huge fan of milk either..but I want it sometimes...

At my old PS, I got a small carton each day. I took it home but only drank like 1 a week. Now I'm at a new PS, I have to "share" 4 cartons of milk with 6 other teachers in my office. It's better this way...I just get it whenever I want it.

[maddog]

A 2.3L jug from the supermarket costs about 2800W were I am.

I know that milk costs less in the US, but isn't your entire farming and agriculture industry heavily subsidised? For us Brits, the cost of milk in Korea is a little more expensive than home, but not by a great deal.

[xCustomx]

[jackson7]

I buy about 3L a week and pay 1,450 for each 990ml carton. At today's currency rates, that's only pennies more than my parents are paying in Alaska. (1 gallon = 3.78L) (1USD = ~1440KRW)

[Juregen]

I buy 6 liter if milk every week (for me and my son).

price is 3.400 won for 2 liters, can't seem to find any other taste I like.