Fruits are displayed at a discount mart in Seoul on Monday. Rising fruit prices contributed to inflation in January as it hit a 13-year record of 0.4 percentage points, far surpassing the previous average of 0.1 to 0.2 percentage points, according to the Ministry of Economy and Finance and Statistics Korea that day. [YONHAP]
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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