Lee Doo-won, a senior official at the Ministry of Data and Statistics, speaks during a press conference at the government complex in Sejong, central South Korea, on Aug. 4, 2026, to announce South Korea's consumer prices rose 2.8 percent in July from a year earlier as oil prices remained elevated, though their rate of increase slowed. (Yonhap)

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