The Green Book: Current Economic Trends
Overview The Korean economy continues to recover as strong exports have led to improvement in mining and manufacturing production, consumption and facility investment. The economy added 112,000 jobs year-on-year in March led by manufacturing and construction, and as the service sector turned to an increase. Young adult unemployment continued to rise (11.3% 11.6%, up 0.3%p, y-o-y). Consumer price inflation was 1.3 percent in March, rising slowly compared with the previous month (up 1.4% up 1.3%, y-o-y), due to low agricultural product prices and public utility rates, as well as steady p...