Melon price madness

Sliced fruit is displayed at a large discount mart in Seoul on June 28. As single-person households continue to increase, sales of precut watermelon at Lotte Mart surged 103.2 percent from January to May this year compared to the same period a year earlier. At E-Mart, sales of sliced watermelon increased 49.2 percent on year between May 1 and May 24, while sales climbed 10.8 percent.