
Oil price surge drives inflation; diesel up 21.5%, gasoline 12.6%
South Korea's consumer prices rose 2.8% year-on-year in July, falling below 3% for the first time in three months, driven by high oil prices with diesel up 21.5% and gasoline 12.6%.
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South Korea relies heavily on energy imports, making it vulnerable to global oil price fluctuations.
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's consumer prices added 2.8 percent in July from a year earlier as oil prices continued to remain high, data showed Tuesday, although the growth fell below the 3 percent level for the first time in three months.
According to data from the Ministry of Data and Statistics, the increase slowed from a 3.1 percent and 3.2 percent on-year increase posted in May and June, respectively.
The July data was mainly led by petroleum product prices, with diesel prices rising a sharp 21.5 percent and those of gasoline adding 12.6 percent.
South Korea relies heavily on imports to meet its energy needs.

ํ๊ตญ ์ ๋ฐ ์ต์ด๋ก ์ปจํ ์ด๋์ 'ํฌ์คํ ์ํฌ๋กํธ'๊ฐ ๋ถ๊ทนํญ๋ก ์๋ฒ ์ดํญ์ ์ํด ๋ถ์ฐ์์ ์ถํญํ๋ค. ์ด๋ฒ ์ดํญ์ ๋ถ์ฐ๊ณผ ์ ๋ฝ์ ์๋ ์ต๋จ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ํญ๋ก ๊ฐ์ฒ์ ๋ชฉํ๋ก ํ๋ฉฐ, ์ฝ 45์ผ๊ฐ ์ด 6,400km์ ๋ถ๊ทนํด ๊ตฌ๊ฐ์ ํต๊ณผํ ์์ ์ด๋ค.

South Korea and Japan held a vice finance ministerial meeting in Tokyo on Friday to discuss global financial trends, bilateral cooperation, and multilateral platforms like ASEAN+3 and G20.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์บ๋๋ค์ ๋ฌด์ญ ํ์์ด ์ต์ข ๊ฒฐ๋ ฌ๋๋ฉด์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ด 22์ผ๋ถ๋ก ์ฝ 200์ต๋ฌ๋ฌ ์๋น์ ์บ๋๋ค์ฐ ์์ ํ์ 50% ๊ด์ธ๋ฅผ ๋ถ๊ณผํ๊ธฐ๋ก ํ๋ค. ์ด์ ์บ๋๋ค๋ ๋์ผํ ๊ท๋ชจ์ ๋ณด๋ณต ๊ด์ธ๋ฅผ ์๊ณ ํ๋ฉฐ ์๊ตญ ๊ด๊ณ๊ฐ ๊ธ๊ฒฉํ ๋๊ฐ๋๊ณ ์๋ค.

Samsung SDI plans to sell a 33% stake in Samsung Display for 4.45 trillion won ($3.21 billion) to finance overseas battery production facilities, specifically targeting its Synergy Cells plant in Indiana, U.S.

The South Korean government has extended its fuel price ceilings for gasoline, diesel, and kerosene for another four weeks. The decision follows rising Brent crude prices, which reached $90 per barrel due to ongoing instability in the Middle East.

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