First of all, I wish to express my sincere gratitude to our predecessors who devoted themselves to the development of the Bank of Korea and have supported and encouraged the Bank.
Even for secondary data like price statistics, users prefer to consult RBI publications. Therefore, the responsibility of maintaining data quality, timeliness and making data meaningful inevitably falls on DSIM. The Department should make greater use of technology to validate and improve data quality. Third, there are some surveys on macroeconomic changes which have not progressed to our desired level of satisfaction.