The Green Book: Current Economic Trends
Overview The Korean economy has seen inflation and employment remain stable, with mining and manufacturing production and exports rising, but consumption and investment edged down. In October, the economy added 396,000 jobs year-on-year, with the employment rate and jobless rate both improving. Consumer prices in November rose 1.6 percent year-on-year, with agricultural product prices and petroleum product prices stabilizing due to benign weather conditions and a fall in international oil prices. Mining and manufacturing production went up 0.6 percent in October month-on-month thanks t...
