My dear colleagues, Korea is recognized as one of the economies that have been the fastest to recover from the global financial crisis among OECD member countries. Let me emphasize once again that the Bank of Korea has made a great contribution to this achievement.
Although we are lucky to have staged such a rapid recovery, I would like to state clearly that we cannot as a result become self-complacent. We should never forget that the global financial crisis had the greatest impact, among all nations, on Korea.