SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The government on Sunday announced a package of emergency measures, including additional fuel tax cuts and higher income tax deduction rates for public transit use, aimed at countering growing inflationary pressure. Starting next month, tax cuts on fuel consumption will be expanded to a legal cap of 37 percent [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Inflation is resulting in higher lunch prices, prompting some to coin a new word “lunchflation” to describe the phenomenon. The Korea Consumer Agency reported that the price of “naemgnyeon,” cold buckwheat noodles served in various types of broth or mixed with spice, reached an average of 10,192 won as [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Those in low-income groups are bearing a relatively higher inflation burden than those with higher incomes in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic, a local research institute said. The Korea Economic Research Institute (KERI) analyzed the change in prices felt by consumers for the periods of 2018-2019 and 2020-2021. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s consumer prices grew at the fastest pace in 10 years in 2021 due to surging energy costs and high prices of farm products, data showed Friday, indicating a build-up in inflationary pressure for Asia’s fourth-largest economy. Consumer prices rose 2.5 percent this year from a year earlier, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to closely monitor prices of major agricultural, livestock and fishery goods starting next week in a bid to help stabilize inflationary pressure ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, a senior government official said Friday. The government will monitor the price movements of 17 items that [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to temporarily cut fuel taxes in a bid to ease upward pressure on inflation amid surging oil prices, a senior government official said Friday. First Vice Finance Minister Lee Eog-weon also said the government plans to additionally cut import tariffs on liquid natural gas (LNG), currently [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s headline inflation dropped for the first time in September due to a decline in farm goods and weak demand, the statistics agency said Tuesday, the latest in a series of data backing an additional rate cut for Asia’s fourth-largest economy. South Korea’s consumer prices fell 0.4 percent [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Prices of daily necessities in South Korea are going up following increased food and eating-out costs, adding to the country’s overall inflation, sources said Friday. According to the sources from the convenience store sector, tissue and battery makers have recently decided to jack up prices by up to 10 [...]
SEJONG, Apr. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Nonregular workers in South Korea have seen their wages rise nearly 30 percent over the past decade, but the increase has almost been offset by inflation, data showed Sunday. The gross monthly wages of temporary workers in Asia’s fourth-largest economy stood at 1.51 million won (US$1,410) as of the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A growing number of South Koreans are expressing concern over the soaring cost of living in their country. According to the Worldwide Cost of Living Report 2017 from the Economist Intelligence Unit, the inflation rate in South Korea was highest among the 133 countries surveyed, while it was also [...]