{"id":12701,"date":"2026-10-01T23:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/?p=12701"},"modified":"2026-10-01T23:56:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T23:56:00","slug":"south-koreas-inflation-eases-but-stays-sticky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/?p=12701","title":{"rendered":"South Korea\u2019s Inflation Eases But Stays Sticky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wsj.net\/im-62589894\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<section class=\"ef4qpkp0 css-1579sa9-Container e11lw8gk0\">\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1qg6i2u e108qypx0\"><a data-type=\"place\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/topics\/place\/south-korea\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\">South Korea<\/a>\u2019s headline inflation moderated last month but remained above the central bank\u2019s 2% target, underscoring the challenge of taming price pressures stoked by the energy shock and artificial-intelligence boom.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1qg6i2u e108qypx0\">The result gives Bank of Korea policymakers another dataset to contemplate ahead of this month\u2019s meeting, as they weigh further tightening to counter <a data-type=\"subject\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/topics\/subject\/inflation\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\">inflation<\/a> fanned by the Middle East conflict and AI-fueled demand.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"css-16aepit e1jdulti0\">Copyright \u00a9<!-- -->2026<!-- --> Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>2026-10-01 23:56:00<br \/>\nKwanwoo Jun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea\u2019s headline inflation moderated last month but remained above the central bank\u2019s 2% target, underscoring the challenge of taming price pressures stoked by the energy shock and artificial-intelligence boom. The result gives Bank of Korea policymakers another dataset to contemplate ahead of this month\u2019s meeting, as they weigh further tightening to counter inflation fanned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[130,100,135,131,132,133,27,72,64,126,73,91,86,136,19,92,134,34,35],"class_list":["post-12701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-asia","tag-asia-pacific","tag-consumer-price-index","tag-dragonfly-asia-pacific","tag-dragonfly-world","tag-east-asia","tag-economic-news","tag-economic-performance","tag-economic-performance-indicators","tag-gcapi","tag-indicators","tag-inflation-figures","tag-inflation-figures-price-indices","tag-linkendrnrealtime-linkedarticle-dnco20261001009970","tag-newsplus","tag-price-indices","tag-south-korea","tag-synd","tag-wsj-pro-wsj-com","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}