The Green Book: Current Economic Trends
Overview The Korean economy, while inflation continued to rise, stayed in a positive territory amid improving employment. Employment in May continued to increase, adding 355,000 jobs, with growing number of regular jobs led by the private sector, while the hiring rate rose year-on-year to 60.1 percent. Consumer price inflation accelerated month-on-month from 4.1 percent to 4.4 percent in June, despite drops in agricultural and petroleum product prices. Meanwhile, core consumer prices rose faster from 3.5 percent to 3.7 percent, as increasing demand from economic recovery pushed up the ...