{"id":66019,"date":"2026-10-02T09:13:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T05:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=66019"},"modified":"2026-10-02T09:13:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T05:13:38","slug":"koreas-consumer-prices-up-2-9-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2026\/10\/02\/koreas-consumer-prices-up-2-9-in-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Korea&#8217;s consumer prices up 2.9% in September"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Republic of Korea&#8217;s consumer prices rose 2.9 percent in September from a year earlier, data showed Friday, with energy costs remaining elevated while prices for agricultural goods declined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consumer price growth returned to the 2 percent levels in September, slowing from a 3.1 percent on-year rise posted in August, Yonhap News Agency reported, citing data from the Ministry of Data and Statistics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In September, diesel prices rose sharply by 20 percent, and gasoline prices shot up 11.8 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Korea relies heavily on imports to meet its energy needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republic of Korea&#8217;s consumer prices rose 2.9 percent in September from a year earlier, data showed Friday, with energy costs remaining elevated while prices for agricultural goods declined. Consumer price growth returned to the 2 percent levels in September, slowing from a 3.1 percent on-year rise posted in August, Yonhap News Agency reported, citing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":66020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66021,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66019\/revisions\/66021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}