An index monitoring corporate service prices in Japan was down 0.2 percent on month in June, the Bank of Korea said on Friday.
That missed forecasts for an increase or 0.1 percent following the downwardly revised 0.2 percent increase in May (originally 0.3 percent).
On a yearly basis, prices dipped 2.4 percent - also shy of expectations for a fall of 2.2 percent - which would have been unchanged from the previous month following a downward revision from -2.1 percent.
Export prices were flat on month and down 4.2 percent on year, the bank said, while import prices added 1.2 percent on month but tumbled 17.6 percent on year.
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