SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea expressed hope Thursday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement on a plan to lift sanctions on Syria will serve as a turning point in efforts toward promoting stability and economic growth in the Arab nation. The foreign ministry made the statement after Trump said he would lift [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team said Wednesday that South Korea’s economy is forecast to grow 2 percent next year, citing downside risks including a slowdown in trade and heightened geopolitical tensions. The latest forecast by the IMF team marked a 0.2 percentage-point drop from an earlier projection presented [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The shrinking population driven by low birthrate and aging will cut South Korea’s economic growth by close to 1 percent each year in the long term, a research paper showed Thursday. Lee Jong-wha, an economics professor at Korea University and chief of the Korean Economic Association, estimated a forecast [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Major global investment banks (IBs) have revised up their forecasts for South Korea’s 2021 economic growth for the third consecutive month amid growing expectations for a recovery, a report showed Tuesday. As of end-February, nine major global IBs, including Barclays, BoA-Merrill Lynch and Citi, forecast Asia’s fourth-largest economy to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s economic growth rate ranked third among major economies across the globe in 2020 despite an on-year contraction due to the coronavirus pandemic, data showed Tuesday. Asia’s fourth-largest economy contracted 1 percent last year from a year earlier, but it posted the third-best performance among 15 major nations, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s negative economic growth is expected to be inevitable for this year in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, officials have said. Local bureaucrats’ growing pessimism about Asia’s fourth-largest economy comes as economic activity has been battered by tougher social distancing measures in the greater Seoul area in [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The outbreak of the new coronavirus here may further undermine South Korea’s economic growth if it is lasts for a significant amount of time, reports suggested Monday, while some said the virus may already have nearly halved the country’s economic growth. “Household spending in Japan and Korea are set [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The Bank of Korea (BOK) again cut its growth forecast for the 2019 economy to 2.6 percent Thursday, following a 0.1 percentage point slash in October, in a clear sign of gloomy growth prospects going forward. The number is 0.3 percentage point lower than the central bank’s original forecast [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has argued that accepting refugees en masse can incur short-term financial risk, but helps economic growth in the long run. Park Bok-yeong, a professor at Kyunghee University’s Graduate School of International Studies, claimed that despite the short-term financial risk that comes with an inflow of refugees, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s per capita income is likely to surpass US$30,000 this year, though the economy is forecast to record its lowest growth rate in six years, observers said Sunday. Gross national income (GNI) is expected to reach $31,243 in 2018, up from last year’s $29,745, according to market observers, [...]