Korea to take leading role helping global economy recover - finance minister 최

Finance Minister Choi Kyung-hwan has pledged that South Korea will take a leading role in aiding the global economic recovery.... by highlighting its own resilience to crises and its ability of perform strongly in the new economic paradigm. Speaking at an investor relations meeting in New York on Thursday, Choi pushed Korea′s resilience and said the country was one of the first to recover following the 2008 global financial crisis. He said the world economy was steadily recovering, but uncertainties linger. Addressing over 200 foreign investors and representatives from key global financial institutions, the Korean finance minister said the government plans to inject tens of billions of dollars into the economy with the aim of raising Korea′s growth rate for next year to four percent, up from the current forecast of three-point-seven percent.