Korea's central bank has more work to do

The Bank of Korea (BoK) kept its policy rate at 2.75% today, as was widely expected. Korea’s economic slowdown has bottomed out, but we think growth is unlikely to rebound strongly and that inflation will remain low. Accordingly, we expect the BoK to cut its key rate in 2013.

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