๊ทผ์๋ฌผ๊ฐ vs ์๋น์๋ฌผ๊ฐ: Core vs Headline CPI
Decode ๊ทผ์๋ฌผ๊ฐ vs ์๋น์๋ฌผ๊ฐ and %p in Korean CPI headlines with a 2ร2 grid, collocations, and drillsโlearn
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A โwhat moved?โ basket 2ร2 grid plus % vs %p micro-drills makes ๊ทผ์๋ฌผ๊ฐ headlines readable without overinterpreting policy signals.
Hereโs a generic โheadline setโ you might see in a Korea CPI story. Donโt memorize the numbersโpractice reading them smoothly.
2.8% โ read it as ์ด ์ ํ ํผ์ผํธi jeom pal peosenteu (a rate)0.4%p โ read it as ์ ์ ์ฌ ํผ์ผํธํฌ์ธํธyeong jeom sa peosenteupointeu (a difference between rates)โฉ4,300 โ read it as ์ฌ์ฒ์ผ๋ฐฑ ์sacheonsambaek won (a price level)The quick habit: % answers โhow big is the rate?โ and %p answers โhow much did one rate move vs another rate?โ
Use this when a headline feels vague. First locate the noun bucket, then choose a neutral verb.
I learned this the hard way after misreading a short TV caption about ๊ฐ์ธ์๋น์คgaeinseobiseuโit wasnโt โservices got cheaper,โ it was about the inflation pace inside that bucket.
๊ทผ์๋ฌผ๊ฐ ์์น๋ฅ geunwonmulga sangseungryul๊ทผ์๋ฌผ๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋๋ค/๋ฎ๋คgeunwonmulgaga nopda/natda๊ทผ์๋ฌผ๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋ํํ๋คgeunwonmulgaga dunhwahada๊ทผ์๋ฌผ๊ฐ๊ฐ ๊ฒฌ์กฐํ๋คgeunwonmulgaga gyeonjohada๊ทผ์๋ฌผ๊ฐ ํ๋ฆgeunwonmulga heureum๊ทผ์๋ฌผ๊ฐ ์์น๋ฅ ์ด ๋ํํ๋ค.geunwonmulga sangseungryuri dunhwahaetda. โ The core inflation rate slowed.๊ทผ์๋ฌผ๊ฐ ํ๋ฆ์ ์์ง ๊ฒฌ์กฐํ๋ค.geunwonmulga heureumeun ajik gyeonjohada. โ The core inflation trend is still firm.๊ทผ์๋ฌผ๊ฐ๋ ์๋ฃํยท์๋์ง ๋ณ๋์ ๋ ๋ฐ๋ ํธ์ด๋ค.geunwonmulganeun sikryopumยทeneoji byeondoeul deol batneun pyeonida. โ Core inflation tends to be less affected by food and energy swings.
| Keyword | Verb/adjective it pairs with | Example |
|---|---|---|
๊ทผ์๋ฌผ๊ฐgeunwonmulga | ๋ํํ๋คdunhwahada / ๊ฒฌ์กฐํ๋คgyeonjohada | ๊ทผ์๋ฌผ๊ฐ ์์น๋ฅ ์ด ๋ํํ๋ค.geunwonmulga sangseungryuri dunhwahaetda. |
์๋น์๋ฌผ๊ฐsobijamulga | ์๋๋คutdolda / ํํํ๋คhahoehada | ์๋น์๋ฌผ๊ฐ ์์น๋ฅ ์ด ์์์น๋ฅผ ํํํ๋ค.sobijamulga sangseungryuri yesangchireul hahoehaetda. |
์์น๋ฅ sangseungryul |
Read 5 numbers out loud (Korean) + meaning in EN.
๊ทผ์๋ฌผ๊ฐgeunwonmulga, scan the article for whatโs excluded or โless volatile,โ then restate using ์์น๋ฅ sangseungryul.| Food & energy | Services & other |
|---|
| Often volatile (headline drivers) | ๋์ฐ๋ฌผnongsanmul / ์ถ์ฐ๋ฌผchuksanmul / ์์ฐ๋ฌผsusanmul / ์์ ๋ฅseogyuryu | ์ธ์oesik / ๊ฐ๊ณต์ํgagongsikpum / ์๋ฅuiryu |
| Often sticky (core-ish feel) | ์ ๊ธฐยท๊ฐ์คยท์๋jeongiยทgaseuยทsudo / ์ฐ๋ฃ๋นyeonryobi | ๊ฐ์ธ์๋น์คgaeinseobiseu / ์ง์ธjipse / ๊ณต๊ณต์๋น์คgonggongseobiseu |
์๋น์๋ฌผ๊ฐ ์์น๋ฅ sobijamulga sangseungryul์๋น์๋ฌผ๊ฐ๊ฐ ์ค๋ฅด๋ค/๋ด๋ฆฌ๋คsobijamulgaga oreuda/naerida์๋น์๋ฌผ๊ฐ๊ฐ ํ๋๋๋ค/๋ํํ๋คsobijamulgaga hwakdaedoeda/dunhwahada์๋น์๋ฌผ๊ฐ ์ง์(CPI)sobijamulga jisu(CPI)์๋น์๋ฌผ๊ฐ ๋ฐํsobijamulga balpyo์๋น์๋ฌผ๊ฐ ์์น๋ฅ ์ด ์์ฅ ์์์น๋ฅผ ์๋์๋ค.sobijamulga sangseungryuri sijang yesangchireul utdoratda. โ The headline CPI rate came in above market expectations.์๋น์๋ฌผ๊ฐ๋ ์ ๊ฐ ๋ณ๋์ ์ํฅ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ ์๋ค.sobijamulganeun yuga byeondoui yeonghyaeul badeul su itda. โ Headline CPI can be affected by oil price swings.์๋น์๋ฌผ๊ฐ ๋ฐํ ์ดํ ๊ด๋ จ์ฃผ๊ฐ ๋ณ๋ํ๋ค.sobijamulga balpyo ihu gwanryeonjuga byeondonghaetda. โ After the CPI release, related stocks moved.ํผ์ผํธํฌ์ธํธ ์์น/ํ๋ฝpeosenteupointeu sangseung/harak์ ์ ๋๋น 0.3%pjeonwol daebi 0.3%p์ ๋
๋๋น 0.5%pjeonnyeon daebi 0.5%p๊ฒฉ์ฐจ๊ฐ 0.2%p ๋ฒ์ด์ง๋คgyeokchaga 0.2%p beoreojida์์น๋ฅ ์ด 0.4%p ๋ฎ์์ก๋ค.sangseungryuri 0.4%p najajyeotda. โ The rate is 0.4 percentage points lower.ํค๋๋ผ์ธ๊ณผ ๊ทผ์์ ๊ฒฉ์ฐจ๊ฐ 0.2%p ๋ฒ์ด์ก๋ค.hedeuraingwa geunwonui gyeokchaga 0.2%p beoreojyeotda. โ The gap between headline and core widened by 0.2 percentage points.0.4%์ 0.4%p๋ ์๋ฏธ๊ฐ ๋ค๋ฅด๋ค.0.4%wa 0.4%pneun uimiga dareuda. โ 0.4% and 0.4%p mean different things.๋ฎ์์ง๋คnajajida / ๋์์ง๋คnopajida |
์์น๋ฅ ์ด ์ ์๋ณด๋ค ๋ฎ์์ก๋ค.sangseungryuri jeonwolboda najajyeotda. |
์์น์ธsangseungse | ์ง์ ๋๋คjinjeongdoeda / ๊บพ์ด๋คkkeokkida | ์์น์ธ๊ฐ ์ง์ ๋๋ค.sangseungsega jinjeongdwaetda. |
์์นํญsangseungpok | ํ๋๋๋คhwakdaedoeda / ์ถ์๋๋คchuksodoeda | ์์นํญ์ด ์ถ์๋๋ค.sangseungpogi chuksodwaetda. |
๊ฒฉ์ฐจgyeokcha | ๋ฒ์ด์ง๋คbeoreojida / ์ขํ์ง๋คjophyeojida | ๊ฒฉ์ฐจ๊ฐ ์ขํ์ก๋ค.gyeokchaga jophyeojyeotda. |
์๋ ฅapryeok | ์ํ๋๋คwanhwadoeda / ์ปค์ง๋คkeojida | ๋ฌผ๊ฐ ์์น ์๋ ฅ์ด ์ํ๋๋ค.mulga sangseung apryeogi wanhwadwaetda. |
์์ ๋ฅseogyuryu | ๊ธ๋ฑํ๋คgeupdeunghada / ํ๋ฝํ๋คharakhada | ์์ ๋ฅ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ด ํ๋ฝํ๋ค.seogyuryu gagyeogi harakhaetda. |
3.1% โ ์ผ ์ ์ผ ํผ์ผํธsam jeom il peosenteu โ a 3.1 percent rate. Neutral takeaway: the headline figure is reported as a rate.2.4% โ ์ด ์ ์ฌ ํผ์ผํธi jeom sa peosenteu โ a 2.4 percent rate. Neutral takeaway: core and headline can differ without a โcontradiction.โ0.7%p โ ์ ์ ์น ํผ์ผํธํฌ์ธํธyeong jeom chil peosenteupointeu โ a 0.7 percentage-point gap/change. Neutral takeaway: use %p for rate differences, not %.โฉ1,980 โ ์ฒ๊ตฌ๋ฐฑํ์ญ ์cheongubaekpalsip won โ a price level in won. Neutral takeaway: a single price is not the same as an inflation rate.-0.2%p โ ๋ง์ด๋์ค ์ ์ ์ด ํผ์ผํธํฌ์ธํธmaineoseu yeong jeom i peosenteupointeu โ a 0.2 percentage-point decline. Neutral takeaway: say the rate moved down, not that โprices fell.โ์๋น์๋ฌผ๊ฐsobijamulga๋์ฐ๋ฌผnongsanmul์์ ๋ฅseogyuryu๊ฐ์ธ์๋น์คgaeinseobiseu%p, rewrite one sentence with โthe rate is X percentage points higher/lowerโ and keep it descriptive (no policy prediction).