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14 _ <strong>HELLO</strong> <strong>from</strong> <strong>KOREA</strong><br />

Economy<br />

Korea has many world-class industries such as electronics, textiles,<br />

petrochemicals, steel products, automobiles, construction and shipbuilding.<br />

From a country nearing bankruptcy, Korea has turned itself into a creditor<br />

country with the world's fourth largest foreign exchange reserves<br />

totaling $160 billion. Despite the synchronized global slowdown, Korea<br />

is posting a sound growth of 5 to 6%.<br />

The country has<br />

made its mark as an<br />

information technology<br />

power. The world's<br />

leading credit rating<br />

agencies, which once<br />

downgraded Korea's<br />

sov-ereign credit rating<br />

to non-investment<br />

grade, upgraded Korea's<br />

rating back to A-level.<br />

The government<br />

implemented sweeping<br />

reforms in the four key sectors of financial, corporate, labor and public.<br />

Under the conviction that reform is a never-ending process, Korea's<br />

reform measures were institutionalized through a new set of rules and<br />

regulations.<br />

Information infrastructure, such as broad-band internet, was expanded<br />

to cover the whole country, making Korea a new IT superpower.<br />

Korea stands to improve the overall business environment for the goal<br />

of emerging Northeast Asia's new business center. Given the geographical<br />

proximity to China, Northeast Asia as a region expects to emerge as a<br />

major economic powerhouse. In order to take advantage of geopolitical<br />

factors, Korea is making active efforts to emerge as the logistic and<br />

finance center of the Northeast Asian region.

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