Food, Beverages price grow 5% in Q3, marking 5th-steepest among OECD

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Food, Beverages price grow 5% in Q3, marking 5th-steepest among OECD

Prices of groceries and nonalcoholic beverages in Korea rose 5 percent on-year in the July-September period, marking the fifth-largest increase among OECD nations, data showed Sunday. According to data from Statistics Korea and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, prices of food and beverages grew even higher last month on-year at 6.1 percent on the back of strong price increases of agricultur...