South Korea's finance minister Kim Jin-pyo said the government would work to possibly achieve 6.5 percent economic growth in 2004, higher than the official growth target of about five percent, JoongAng Ilbo reported on Saturday.
To maintain its long-term growth potential, South Korea needed faster economic expansion in gross domestic product than the original forecast, Kim said in an interview with the daily.
"The government will strive to lift this year's growth rate to 6.5 percent if possible," the minister was quoted as saying.
Kim also told the paper that creditors of debt-raden LG Card Co should co-operate to resolve the company's liquidity problem until the card firm found a final buyer.
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