South Korea's consumer prices for March slowed at their weakest pace since July 2016.
According to Statistics Korea Tuesday, consumer prices edged up zero-point-four percent on-year last month due to lower global oil prices and vegetable prices.
Prices of petrochemical goods fell near 10 percent on-year.
Vegetable prices plunged by nearly 13 percent in March.
Core inflation, which excludes food and energy prices, rose zero-point-eight percent on-year.