Livestock products 11.5%↑, the largest increase since June 2014
(Sejong = Yonhap News) Reporter Jeong Soo-yeon and Kwak Min-seo = Last month, consumer prices rose 0.6%, showing an increase of 0% for four consecutive months.
Livestock products such as eggs rose the most in six years, and personal service prices jumped on the rise of the minimum wage, but industrial products declined due to low oil prices.
According to the consumer price trend of Statistics Korea on the 2nd, the consumer price index for January was 106.47 (2015 = 100), up 0.6% from the same month last year.
From October last year (0.1%), November (0.6%), December (0.5%), and January this year (0.6%), the rate of increase was around 0% for four consecutive months.