SEOUL: South Korea's consumer price stayed above 3 percent for the second straight month due to soaring prices for farm goods, statistical office data showed on Tuesday.

The consumer price index gained 3.1 percent in March from a year earlier after climbing 3.1 percent in February and 2.8 percent in January each, according to Statistics Korea.

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