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[AsiaESLbound]

My local Lotte Mart will usually have 1 or 2 of those American style cartons of fresh OJ, but for 6,700 and a 6,000 won taxi ride each way or 90 walk round trip which makes it inconvenient and pricey to get. No smaller stores carry fresh OJ in my city after going on many hunts, but local marts and Family Marts commonly have a few 1.5L bottles of OJ which is basically canned in a plastic bottle OJ for 3,000 won. The Delmonte FreshSquash brand of 1.5L plastic bottle juice it is pretty good substitute though more acidic and lacking pulp, but I require freshuh OJ with orangee pulpuh.

I want fresh juice. I also enjoy the bottles of sweet thick tomato juice too which are commonly available for 3,000 won a 1.5L bottle. I like it when I find a pack of 3 small white plastic square bottles for 5,000 at Lotte Mart where 2 is Jeju orange and 1 is premo tomato juice. I also like to drink about 2L water a day too which thankfully is widely available such as Sam Da SU for 1,400 a 1.5L bottle and better yet, DMZ 2K at Lotte Mart for a rock bottom 850. I guess if I had local access to an Emartuh like I visited in Yongsan, there would be more of a fresh supply of fresh OJ with pulp. Supposedly they are in the process of building one, but with no known opening date. I almost always drank about 3 to 4 cartons of the stuff a week, but at home it only costs like 3,000 won of dollars for a big carton of fresh OJ. I really love juice instead of peeling over priced bitter tasting oranges unless a bumper of those tiny mandarin oranges come back in. They too have mostly dried up recently with prices on many things continuing to go up where 5 of those costs like 5,500 instead of getting a bag of 10 for eee chun won like about a month ago. I hope the juice, fruit, vegetable, and commodities supply situation improves soon.

[salgichawa]

[Triban]

Super funky fresh.

[tefain]

If you like fresh high-pulp juice that much, why not just pick up a juicer and squeeze your own?

That would be better what's at the markets.

[AsiaESLbound]

[eamo]

There won't be anything but expensive fruit in Korea until late Summer when all the Korean fruit farmers finish growing and there's such a glut that even the usually obscenely greedy Korean fruit distributors decide they can actually lower the prices a bit and still make a nice fat profit.


God forbid that any cheap imports of fruit or veg be allowed the rest of the year to keep the prices stable.....dear me, no....

The fruit and veg prices in Korea are a national scandal that Koreans have just gotten used to.

But we foreigners sure as hell notice it when we're asked 18,000won for a watermelon!! Or 12,000 for a medium-sized bag of apples!