The Green Book: Current Economic Trends
Overview The Korean economy has seen inflation and employment remain stable with domestic economic readings such as consumption, investment and services slightly improving. However, due to slowing exports, mining and manufacturing production has continued to fall. The labor market has added 470,000 jobs in the year to July evenly across many industries, leading to an improvement in employment indicators such as the employment rate and jobless rate. Despite an increase in the the price of agricultural and petroleum products, consumer prices in August rose just 1.2 percent year-on-year, ...