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Seoul, July 6 South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo on Wednesday expressed support for the normalisation of the monetary policy by the Bank of Korea (BOK), citing strong inflationary pressure and deteriorating fiscal soundness.Han made the remarks at a meeting with senior policymakers from the ruling People Power Party (PPP), the government and the presidential office earlier in the day."To ease global inflationary pressure, the central bank has no choice but to take steps to normalise finances," Yonhap news agency reported quoting Han as saying.Unless the government recovers its fiscal soundness, Han said it will undermine the nation's credit ratings and capabilities to cope with a crisis.Han's remarks came amid growing prospects the BOK may further hike the policy rate next week to tame inflation. Some experts forecast the BOK to conduct an unprecedented "big-step" rate increase of 50 basis points at the July 13 policy meeting.Consumer prices rose at the fastest clip in nearly 24 years in June due mainly to soaring energy costs, fanning expectations of a sharp rate hike.The government has announced a slew of measures, including the implementation of an extra budget, to help stabilize people's lives."In addition to these short-term measures to stabilize people's lives, in order to increase our growth potential and increase economic productivity, we must solve a number of issues, such as regulatory innovation and institutional advancement," Han said.Han urged the government and the PPP to become "one team" in order to better cope with economic challenges.It was the first time that senior policymakers from the PPP, the government and the presidential office held a meeting for policy coordination since the Yoon Suk-yeol administration was inaugurated in May.Among the participants were PPP Chairman Lee Jun-seok, floor leader Kweon Seong-dong, presidential chief of staff Kim Dae-ki and Finance Minister Choo Kyung-ho.Lee urged the government to take more concrete measures to improve people's lives.Kweon asked Han to make more efforts to boost cooperation between the PPP and the main opposition Democratic Party, saying that such cooperation is needed to pass bills to resolve pending issues regarding people's living conditions.Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

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