Following its move last month to cut rates in response to rising downside risks to growth, the Bank of Korea (BoK) today left its policy rate unchanged at a record low of 1.25%. We think it will take a severe deterioration in the growth outlook to convince the BoK to cut rates again given concerns about high household debt.
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