QTC: Korea – rebound in services inflation
Services inflation had already bottomed at above 2%, and now it looks to be trending up again. As a big component of domestically-generated inflation, a rise in services inflation will make it much more difficult for core and thus overall inflation to stay at the BOK's 2% target.
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