"Whether to and how to reveal records of currency market intervention is not something that should be done with the United States," Finance Minister Kim Dong-yeon told reporters. "The issue is (what we have to do) with the whole world."

Kim said he will discuss the issue with the IMF's chief, Christine Lagarde, on the sidelines of the G-20 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting slated to be held in Washington next week.

Early this week, Kim held phone talks with US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin stressing that South Korea should not be included on Washington's currency manipulators list.

The US Treasury Department is set to release its semiannual currency report this month.

Last October, Washington kept South Korea on its "monitoring list" but did not designate it as a currency manipulator, as Seoul met only two out of three criteria to be considered a currency manipulator -- trade surplus, current account surplus and market intervention.

Washington has vowed to aggressively keep tabs on and combat unfair currency practices, saying the US cannot and will not bear the burden of an international trading system that, it claims, unfairly disadvantages American exports and gives an edge to its trading partners. (Yonhap)