The Green Book: Current Economic Trends
Overview Although the Korean economy has seen employment steadily improving, some real economic indicators such as mining and manufacturing production and retail sales have posted poor performance amid continuing high inflationary pressures. Employment continued to rise in December, led by the service sector and with an increase in regular workers, adding 441,000 jobs, while the employment rate and the unemployment rate stayed in good shape at 58.5 percent and 3.0 percent, respectively. Consumer price inflation declined to 3.4 percent in January from the previous months 4.2 percent, as...