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IMF director says South Korea alone is expanding fiscal space amid AI boom

Choi Ji-young, the IMF executive director representing South Korea, said at the IMF-World Bank annual meetings in Bangkok that South Korea is the only advanced economy expanding its fiscal space, according to the post. She said the semiconductor and AI boom is improving both South Korea's growth outlook and fiscal capacity, and that positive mentions of South Korea within the IMF board have become unusually frequent. She called next year's budget proposal neutral with a slightly contractionary stance, and warned an AI downturn could shock the stock market and current account while relaying the

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  1. Choi Ji-young said South Korea is the only advanced economy expanding its fiscal space.

    “South Korea is the only advanced economy expanding its fiscal space”
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  2. She said the semiconductor and AI boom is improving South Korea's growth outlook and fiscal capacity at the same time.

    “the semiconductor and AI boom is simultaneously improving South Korea's growth outlook and fiscal capacity”
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  3. She said positive mentions of South Korea within the IMF board have become unusually frequent.

    “positive mentions of South Korea within the IMF board have become unusually frequent”
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  4. She assessed next year's budget proposal as neutral with a slightly contractionary stance.

    “she assessed it as neutral with a slightly contractionary stance”
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  5. She warned that a downturn in the AI boom could significantly shock the stock market and current account balance.

    “a downturn in the AI boom could deliver a significant shock to the stock market and current account balance”
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  6. She relayed the IMF's internal view that AI investment will persist for a considerable period and advised against overreacting to short-term volatility.

    “AI investment will persist for a considerable period and advised against overreacting to short-term volatility”
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