May 18, 2005

South Korea Says "No Mas!"

From the FT:
South Korea's central bank will not intervene any further in foreign exchange markets, the governor of the Bank of Korea said on Wednesday in comments likely to unsettle financial markets.

"I believe that we now have sufficient reserves to secure our sovereign credibility, so I do not anticipate increasing the amount of foreign reserves further," Park Seung told the Financial Times. South Korea's foreign currency reserves stand at $206bn the fourth largest in the world.

Mr Park said: "We now need to take more consideration of profitability, and I think we're at a stage where we need to manage our reserves in a more useful way."

This will be harder to shrug off than Norway's sales.

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