A South Korean woman walks past an advertisement for a bank's interests in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday. South Korea's central bank said Thursday it r

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A South Korean woman walks past an advertisement for a bank's interests in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday. South Korea's central bank said Thursday it raised its key interest rate by 0.25 percent in part of efforts to cope with spiraling inflation. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Ahn Young-joon

A South Korean woman walks past an advertisement for a bank's interests in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday. South Korea's central bank said Thursday it raised its key interest rate by 0.25 percent in part of efforts to cope with spiraling inflation. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Ahn Young-joon