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"We do not expect the US to label (South Korea) as a currency manipulator, but we cannot be certain for now," Kim Dong-yeon said in a press conference in Sejong.
"We will discuss (our currency policies) with the IMF. We are doing so using various channels, and we will try our best to make sure we don't get the currency-manipulator label."
South Korea, along with China, avoided the currency-manipulator label in the semi-annual US Treasury currency report, but was kept on a currency "monitoring list".
Kim also said while the government has not decided whether the economy needs a supplementary budget or not, any spending plan needs to be carried out swiftly once the decision has been made to boost growth and add jobs fast.