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November 26, 2018 Economy

Widening income inequality heightens call for policy change

Official data showing a continuous widening of income inequality have strengthened calls on the Moon Jae-in administration to scrap its income-led growth policy. Economists urge President Moon and h...

Moon’s policy weakens labor elasticity

The Moon Jae-in administration’s employment policy has precipitated the weakening of the Korean economy’s ability to create new jobs, experts say. According to the Bank of Korea, the country’s emplo...

November 21, 2018
Economy
Korea needs to boost service exports

Korea needs to step up efforts to increase exports in the service sector to offset a possible decline in the outbound shipment of its major manufactured goods, experts here say. Exports have shored ...

November 19, 2018
Economy
Shorter workweek adds to corporate woes

Local companies are struggling to adapt to a shorter workweek and calling for greater flexibility in its application, but their calls face vehement objections from the country’s umbrella labor groups...

November 14, 2018
Economy
Planned profit-sharing scheme causes controversy

Controversy is intensifying over a move by the government and ruling party to encourage large corporations to share profits with their subcontractors and suppliers. Government policymakers and lawma...

November 12, 2018
Economy
Experts call for more infrastructure spending

Calls are growing for the government to increase infrastructure spending to shore up the country’s slowing economy and improve its worsening employment conditions. Since its launch in May last year,...

November 7, 2018
Economy
Concerns rise over impact from falling asset prices

The slowing Korean economy has been shadowed by the possibility of a steep asset devaluation, which could push it deep into a long-term recession. With investment declining and employment worsening,...

November 5, 2018
Economy
Concerns growing over policy detached from reality

Concerns are growing that President Moon Jae-in and his aides have stuck to economic policies detached from the reality of the country’s economy, which is rapidly losing vitality amid deteriorating c...

November 1, 2018
Economy
China-Japan rapprochement adds challenge for Korean economy

The recent move by China and Japan toward reinvigorating their economic partnership could lead to aggravating the external environment for the Korean economy, experts here say. The cooperative mood ...

October 31, 2018
Economy
[Kim Kyung-ho] Moon’s employment policy goes awry

Kim Kyung-ho is the Sejong-based business editor of The Korea Herald. He can be reached at khkim@heraldcorp.com -- Ed. Shortly after taking office in May last year, in an initiative that was widely ...

October 24, 2018
Economy
[Kim Kyung-ho] Moon’s employment policy goes awry

Shortly after taking office in May last year, in an initiative that was widely perceived as pro-labor, President Moon Jae-in vowed to turn all temporary jobs in the public sector into permanent posit...

October 24, 2018
Columnists
Policy change needed to cushion impact from rate hike

Measures need to be taken quickly to prevent a possible interest rate hike next month from making a deeper dent in the country’s economic growth and employment, economists say. Slowing growth and di...

October 22, 2018
Economy
Public corporations troubled with falling profits, rising debts

Korea’s public corporations are set to suffer from shrinking profits and mounting debt, largely due to what critics view as the Moon Jae-in administration’s ill-conceived policies on energy and emplo...

October 17, 2018
Economy
External uncertainties increase downside risks to economy

Growing uncertainties in the external economic environment are posing greater downside risks to the Korean economy, which has already been held back by declining corporate investment and sluggish con...

October 16, 2018
Economy
Korean economy underperforms growth potential

Economists have raised the alarm on the weakening growth momentum of the Korean economy, calling on the government to take steps to prevent the country from being stuck in a prolonged slowdown. Loca...

October 10, 2018
Economy

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