The unprecedented heatwave has caused the price of seafood to soar.
A spike in water temperatures around the Korean Peninsula... has resulted in lower yields for fishing boats.
Suyeop Noryangjin Fisheries released data on the price of local seafood coming into the Noryangjin Fish Market in the first week of August.
The price of mackerel rose by forty percent from last year to one-dollar and 50 cents a kilogram.
The price of squid also climbed by thirty percent to three-dollars a kilogram.