Soaring oil prices and weaker won to raise renowned OTC items from June

Influenced by rising international prices of crude oil and raw materials costs, the prices of such renowned OTC brand items as vitamin C preparations and hair dyes will rise 10-30 percent from next month.

Leading OTC makers have become more pessimistic about the outlook for the nation’s economic conditions due to surging raw material prices and other external negatives.

Economists say tha...