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Article: S. KOREA TO CUT KEY LENDING RATE.(Business)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- January 18, 1993
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Bowing to business demands, the government will take emergency measures soon to boost South Korea's sagging economy, news reports said Sunday.
Quoting a top executive at the Bank of Korea, all Seoul newspapers reported that the central bank had agreed to lower its key lending rate by one or two percentage points next month.
Businesses' high financing costs, with interest rates now at more than 12 percent a year, erode their international competitiveness, economists say.
The cut would come at about ...