South Korea’s consumer prices rise at fastest pace since 2008 - Al Jazeera English

Asia’s fourth-largest economy saw its consumer price index rise 4.8 percent last month from a year earlier.

South Koreas consumer prices rose at their fastest pace in nearly 14 years in April on the back of surging food and energy prices, in the latest sign of high inflation taking off in Asia. Asias four… [+1655 chars]

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