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June 2016 Vol.38 No.6

The Green Book: Current Economic Trends

Policy Issue

Greenbook

Economic News Briefing (June 2016)

Vol.38 No.6

Current Economic Trends: The Green Book (June 2016)

Policy Issues (June 2016)

Statistical Appendices (June 2016)

Policy Issues (June 2016)

Economic News Briefing

Statistical Appendices (June 2016)

Economic Trends

The Green Book: Current Economic Trends

Overview Production and exports continued to struggle due to weak global recovery while domestic demand stayed positive backed by the strong service sector. The economy added fewer jobs in April than the previous month (300,000 252,000, y-o-y) as the number of daily jobs decreased due to the election day, a national holiday. Consumer price inflation slowed in May to 0.8 percent compared with 1.0 percent in the previous month, due to stable agricultural product prices and a cut in natural gas rates. Mining and manufacturing production fell 1.3 percent month-on-month in April as automobi...

Policy Issue

Policy Issues (June 2016)

Policy Issue 1: Government launches a ministerial meeting to facilitate industrial restructuringPolicy Issue 2: Government unveils its plan to reform public institutions in energy, environment and education sectorsPolicy Issue 3: Revisions to FX regulations focus on flexibility* For further details, please refer to the attached file.

News Briefing

Economic News Briefing

1. BOK cuts key rate to 1.25% 2. Government revises regulations to allow won-yuan direct trading in China 3. ODA budget for 2017 to be 2.7 tn won 4. Korea and China discuss joint project development 5. Korea grows 0.5% in Q1 (preliminary) * For further details, please refer to the attached file

Statistical Appendices(종간)