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2 stories tagged “small business”, each from official Korean data with its source and timestamp.
Not one Korean region's merchants expect improvement
Korea's small merchants are asked each month if they expect the next to be better. In the latest regional data, all 17 provinces answer no — the index runs 64.5 to 80.6, every one below the neutral 100, big cities near the bottom.
Korea's small merchants haven't felt neutral in years
A survey just put small-merchant sentiment at a year-high — 95.1 for September. But that is a hope, still below the neutral 100 — and on our reproducible series neither hope nor reality has touched 100 once in three years.