SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s consumer price index declined for the very first time last month, a sign of deflation. Experts point out that declining consumer prices may become the so-called ‘new normal’ for South Korea. Statistics Korea reported that South Korea’s consumer prices reached a growth rate of 0.5 percent this [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea needs to act boldly to avoid deflation, a Nobel Prize-winning economist said Monday, as Asia’s fourth-largest economy has plenty of fiscal space and favorable budget positions. Paul Krugman, an economics professor at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center, said South Korea should undertake fiscal stimulus. [...]
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“Technically speaking, Korean economy is not deemed to have entered deflation. Although consumer prices have continued to stay in the meager 1-percent range for nearly two years, this trend is largely caused by supply factors such as downward prices of agricultural products and global energy goods. The underlying inflation which indicates basic price pressure in terms [...]