Consumer prices increased more than two percent in March for the third consecutive month. 

Statistics Korea said Wednesday that the country’s consumer price index stood at 116-point-29 in March, up two-point-one percent from a year earlier.

This follows a two-point-two percent increase in January and a two percent rise in February. 

Core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, rose one-point-nine percent in March from a year earlier.

The prices of agricultural, livestock and fishery products rose zero-point-nine percent from a year earlier in March, while the prices of industrial goods gained one-point-seven percent.