Economic Bulletin | KDI 경제교육·정보센터

Overview Although inflation remains low, employment continues to grow and major indicators rebounded from temporary setbacks in the previous month when industrial production slowed down due to the Lunar New Year holiday. The economy continued to add jobs in February compared with a year ago despite a high base (835,000 jobs added in February 2014). Permanent jobs led the increase and a total of 376,000 jobs were added year-on-year compared with 347,000 jobs a month ago. Consumer price inflation remained low in March, rising 0.4 percent year-on-year, due to low international oil prices ...

Policy Issue

Policy Issues (April 2015)

PPP Boosting Measures Announced to Effectively Utilize Private Capital --- The government announced public-private partnership (PPP) boosting measures on April 8 at the 7th Ministerial Meeting on the Economy. The measures aim to provide safe investment opportunities for idle capital in the market and stimulate economic growth by effectively utilizing available capital.Government to Promote Bio-technology as a Future Growth Engine --- The government unveiled the Plan to Promote Biotechnology on March 17, a strategy to develop at least 5 innovative biomedical products by 2017. To this en...

News Briefing

Economic News Briefing

1. Results of 2015 IDB-IIC Annual Meeting 2. Korea to Join AIIB 3. Korea to Provide US $1 Billion to Latin America for Development 4. Government to Move Up 3 Trillion Won of Spending to First Half 5. Guidelines for FY 2016 Budget and Public Funds Management 6. Korea Signs FTA with New Zealand 7. Korea Grows 3.3% in 2014 (Preliminary) * For further details, please refer to the attached file

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