SEOUL: South Korea's central bank unexpectedly raised its benchmark interest rate, the second increase in three months, to prevent inflation accelerating.
Bank of Korea governor Park Seung and his six fellow policymakers raised the overnight call rate to 3.75% at their monthly meeting in Seoul yesterday. All nine economists polled by Bloomberg expected the central bank to leave the rate unchanged.
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