SEOUL: South Korea’s inflation rate in April remained at its lowest level since 1999, fanning concerns that Asia’s fourth-largest economy is slipping toward a period of deflation, government data showed on Friday.

The consumer price index was up 0.4 percent in April from a year earlier, unchanged from the rate in March, Statistics Korea said.

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