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▲ President Moon Jae-in shared a post by Hong Nam-ki, Deputy Prime Minister of Economy, on his Facebook page on the 26th. | |
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President Moon Jae-in shared an article on social media after analyzing the growth rate of Korea’s economy in the fourth quarter of last year on the 26th by Deputy Prime Minister Hong Nam-ki and Minister of Strategy and Finance.
With this, it is analyzed that President Moon directly supported and empowered Deputy Prime Minister Hong, who is the economic command tower in the recent Corona 19 situation, being attacked by the recent issue of compensation for the loss of self-employed persons.
Blue House spokesman Kang Min-seok said in a written briefing to reporters on this afternoon, “President Moon shared the Facebook post of Deputy Prime Minister Hong Nam-ki today.” It is related to the breaking news (+1.1% compared to the previous year) and last year’s annual GDP breakdown (-1.0% related).
He added, “This is a number that exceeds the expectations of major domestic and foreign institutions and market expectations, and it is the highest growth performance compared to the expected negative growth of -3% to -10% or more of developed countries in the top 10 in economic scale.” .
In addition, spokesman Kang said, “There was also a foreign press report that the possibility of overtaking the G7 countries on a per capita basis is increasing.” “Without comparison with other countries,’the first negative growth after the foreign exchange crisis’ and’minus in 22 years after the foreign exchange crisis. Digital articles such as’are coming out,’ he explained.
In addition, “Today’s announcement of the breaking news is a valuable’achievement’ that the whole people made by enduring daily sacrifices in the corona pandemic situation three times,” said Kang.
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▲ Hong Nam-ki, Deputy Prime Minister of Economy and Minister of Strategy and Finance, speaks at the high-ranking party government meeting held at the Yeouido National Assembly in Seoul on the morning of the 20th. | |
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