SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s import prices rose for a fourth consecutive month in April due to an increase in oil prices and the Korean won’s decline against the U.S. dollar, central bank data showed Tuesday. The import price index rose 3.9 percent last month from a month earlier following a 0.5 [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s import prices rose for a third consecutive month in March due to an increase in oil prices amid a rise in the Korean won against the U.S. dollar, central bank data showed Tuesday. The import price index rose 0.4 percent last month from a month earlier following [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s import prices rebounded in January from a two-month decline due to a rise in oil prices, central bank data showed Friday. The import price index rose 2.2 percent last month from a month earlier following a 1.7 percent on-month dip the previous month, according to the preliminary [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s wheat import prices soared to an over 13-year high in March on the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and a global supply chain bottleneck, data showed Wednesday, exerting upward pressure on food prices here. The country’s import prices of wheat amounted to US$402 per ton last [...]