Officials from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will visit South Korea this week to assess its economic conditions and exchange opinions on economic and financial policies, the finance ministry here said Tuesday.
During its one-week stay from Wednesday, the IMF delegation will meet with the nation's key financial and economic policymakers from the finance ministry, the central bank and the financial regulatory commission, according to the Ministry of Strategy and Finance.
It will also visit major public and private companies.
At the scheduled meetings, the IMF officials and South Korean policymakers will exchange views on current economic, financial and fiscal issues.
They will also discuss the country's labor reform and an improvement in productivity, the ministry added. (Yonhap)