Economic Bulletin | KDI 경제교육·정보센터

Overview Although employment continues to grow, inflation remains low amid falling oil prices and major indicators due to temporary factors. Mining and manufacturing production and retail sales fell due to the Lunar New Year holiday and a high base effect following a year-end production surge. The economy continued to add jobs in January, but at a slower rate due to a high base effect, adding 347,000 jobs year-on-year compared with 422,000 jobs in the previous month. Consumer price inflation remained low in February, rising 0.5 percent year-on-year, due to low international oil prices,...

Policy Issue

Policy Issues (March 2015)

Follow-up Measures to Support President Park’s Middle East Agenda --- President Park visited the Middle Eastern countries of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar for the first time in the beginning of her third year as President from March 1-9.The visit was a huge success as 44 MOUs were signed, the 1:1 business forums led to 44 contracts being signed worth a total of US $900 million, and the likelihood of more large-scale contracts being signed was increased as Korea laid the foundation for winning contracts to ‘mega projects’ such as exporting small-medium sized S...

News Briefing

Economic News Briefing

1. BOK Cuts Key Rate to 1.75% 2. Government to Support Space Technology Startups 3. External Debt Amounted to US $425.4 Billion in 2014 4. SME Loans to be Expanded in 2015 5. Korea Initials FTA with China 6. Korea, Turkey Sign FTA in Investment and Services * For further details, please refer to the attached file

Statistical Appendices(종간)

Statistical Appendices (March 2015)

Featured Issue

Featured Issue (March 2015)

Opening the Door to Latin America:Korea Hosts the 2015 IDB Annual Meeting in Busan---The Ministry of Strategy and Finance co-hosted the 2015 IDB-IIC Annual Meeting of the Boards of Governors along with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) from March 26 to 29 in Busan. The meeting also commemorated Korea’s 10th year as a member of the IDB.* For further details, please refer to the attached file.

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Vol.37 No.3

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Current Economic Trends: The Green Book (March 2015)

Policy Issues Title

Policy Issues (March 2015)

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Statistical Appendices (March 2015)

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Economic News Briefing (March 2015)