[Seminar] High Exchange Rate Solutions: Rate Hikes or Better Fundamentals

The Center for Free Enterprise (CFE) and the Korean Association for Market Economy successfully held a seminar on May 15 titled “Solutions to the High Exchange Rate: Interest Rate Response or Fundamental Improvement?” The seminar examined the structural causes behind the persistence of a high exchange rate and confirmed that the fundamental solution lies not in short-term government intervention, but in market-friendly structural reforms such as deregulation, capital market advancement, and securing fiscal soundness.

Thank you to everyone who attended.

◇ Date and Time: May 15, 2026 (Fri), 2:00 PM

◇ Venue: Pureun Hall

◇ Hosted by: Center for Free Enterprise (CFE), Korean Association for Market Economy

▶ Moderator

- Jaewook Ahn, Emeritus Professor, Kyung Hee University

▶ Presenters

- Changbae Kim, Secretary-General, Open Society Forum

- Yoon Seol, Professor, School of Business Administration, Kyungpook National University

▶ Discussants

- Junhwan Lim, Senior Research Fellow, Digital Finance Center

- Jiwon Park, Associate Research Fellow, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy

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Original title: [세미나] 고환율 해법: 금리 대응인가, 펀더멘털 개선인가

Author: Center for Free Enterprise (CFE)

Date: 2026-05-16

Source: https://www.cfe.org/bbs/bbsDetail.php?cid=seminar&pn=1&idx=28922