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...Hong Nam-ki said on Monday that South Korea could “no longer discuss the issue just within ministries because of the recent active changes in the economic orders in the Asia-Pacific region, such as the applications...
...Finance minister Hong Nam-ki said on Tuesday that curbing the rise in consumer prices was urgent to combat persistent inflationary pressure....
...Finance minister Hong Nam-ki blamed global supply chain disruptions for the sluggish production data and expected the November figures to improve on strong exports and a recovery in domestic consumption....
...His main rival has talked, less explicitly, about deregulation that probably amounts to the same thing: since mid-December, finance minister Hong Nam-ki has twice proposed changes to rules that would address...
...Finance minister Hong Nam-ki also warned that the new Omicron coronavirus variant could exacerbate supply chain problems....
...Finance minister Hong Nam-ki has also privately backed calls to allow Lee’s to return to management, according to people familiar with the matter. The ministry declined to comment....
...Finance minister Hong Nam-ki said on Wednesday that the government would do its utmost to stem “excessive” inflation although the ministry expects inflation to moderate this month....
...Finance minister Hong Nam-ki said earlier this month that the government was considering a sixth supplementary budget to shore up pandemic-hit businesses....
...Hong Nam-ki, finance minister, said on Wednesday the job market recovery had become more “evident”....
...The comments by Hong Nam-ki came as concerns grew over a shortage of vaccines and slow progress in the vaccine rollout as health authorities struggle to curb the rising number of infections....
...Finance minister Hong Nam-ki expects the job market recovery to continue this month and vowed to focus on creating more high-quality jobs in the private sector....
...The growth rate “proves the economy’s ability to recover is relatively solid,” finance minister Hong Nam-ki said on Facebook, although the weak job market remained a concern....
...Ban Ki-moon, the former UN secretary-general and a critic of the new South Korean laws, briefly stops by our table for a pleasant commotion of bows and two-handed business card swaps....
...given the gloomy global economic outlook and uncertainties in containing the virus,” said Hong Nam-ki, the finance minister....
...She has been groomed for power since her teens by North Korean propaganda master Kim Ki Nam, according to Michael Madden, a US expert in North Korean leadership....
...The country’s industrial output rose 0.4 per cent in November from the previous month, which finance minister Hong Nam-ki said on Monday was a “positive” sign that the economy may have hit bottom....
...“We have expected fiscal spending to play the supporting role in adding vitality to the private sector,” Hong Nam-ki told a group of foreign press reporters....
...Hong Nam-ki, South Korea’s finance minister, said on Friday that it was “difficult” to continue to be recognised as a developing country given the country’s current economic standing....
...It would be helpful for fiscal policy to play a more active role to put the economy back on a growth tack,” finance minister Hong Nam-ki told a news conference....
...Finance minister Hong Nam-ki forecast the extra budget would lift the country’s economic growth by 0.1 percentage point to 2.6 per cent this year and create more than 73,000 jobs....
...Finance minister Hong Nam-ki said earlier this month that a “monetary and fiscal policy mix” was needed, given the changed economic circumstances....
...Seoul’s finance minister Hong Nam-ki told a policy meeting on Wednesday that the government would make “all-out efforts” to achieve its goal of creating 150,000 jobs this year....
...Jo Song Gil, a 44-year-old diplomat, has been missing for the past two months, South Korean lawmaker Kim Min-ki told reporters on Thursday after being briefed by Seoul’s National Intelligence Service....
...“Our beloved colleagues and their families have suffered for a long time but Samsung Electronics failed to take care of this earlier,” said Kim Ki-nam, the company’s president in charge of semiconductors...
...Mr Kim, the sacked finance minister, will be replaced by Hong Nam-ki, an economic policy official currently serving in the prime minister’s office. Additional reporting by Kang Buseong...
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