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Nat’l Consumer Inflation Up 5.9 pct in Q3

SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s nationwide consumer prices rose 5.9 percent on-year in the third quarter of the year due to higher energy and dining-out costs, data showed Monday. The figure marked an expansion from the 5.4 percent on-year growth tallied a quarter earlier, according to the data from Statistics Korea. By [...]

Nat’l Consumer Inflation Hits 24-year High in Q2

SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s nationwide consumer prices rose at the fastest pace in 24 years in the second quarter of the year on soaring energy and food costs, data showed Monday. The national consumer price index came to 107.54 in the April-June period, up 5.4 percent from a year earlier, according [...]