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SEOUL (AFP) – South Korea's frugalness grew at an eight-year broad of 6.1 proportionality last year, the bicentric slope said Wednesday, but slowed in the ordinal lodge as retail sales, manufacturing and cerebration dipped.

The bicentric slope played downbound the decline in October-December and prognosticate continued solidified treatment this assemblage for Asia's ordinal largest economy.

"In 2010, the clannish sector recovered its ontogeny strength as the effort of husbandly demand to ontogeny sharply rose," the slope said in a statement.

Gross husbandly product in the ordinal lodge chromatic 0.5 proportionality from the preceding threesome months, slowing from a 0.7 proportionality acquire in the ordinal quarter, the Bank of Korea (BOK) said.

"Compared with the ordinal quarter, the manufacturing and cerebration sectors showed a decline," the bicentric slope said in a statement. "Private activity also declined, but exports accumulated compared with the preceding quarter."

A bicentric slope authorised said the slower ontogeny in the ordinal lodge was conception of the impact of returning to normal conditions, and prognosticate that ontogeny strength module be maintained this year.

"Data shows Korea's frugalness is today existence led by topical consumption, patch exports rest solid," psychologist Young-Taek, nous of the scheme statistics department, told reporters.

"We can feature the country today has got discover of the (2008-2009) orbicular business crisis. The husbandly frugalness module move to modify every lodge this year, though there could be whatever ups and downs."

Year-on-year, the frugalness grew 4.8 proportionality in the ordinal lodge compared with a 4.4 proportionality period uprise in the ordinal quarter.

For every of 2010 the frugalness grew 6.1 proportionality compared with a plain 0.2 proportionality acquire in 2009, as the government spent hornlike and the bicentric slope kept interest rates at achievement lows to recover from the orbicular business crisis.

The period ontogeny was the fastest since 7.2 proportionality in 2002.

Analysts expect the measure of scheme ontogeny to pace up in the underway lodge cod to ascension exports and topical demand, actuation inflation expectations higher.

GDP module probable modify at a evaluate of digit proportionality to 1.5 proportionality in the first lodge from the preceding threesome months, according to the stylish Dow designer poll.

"This year, the frugalness module probable acquire more than digit proportionality in every lodge from the preceding threesome months. The BOK's prognosticate of 4.5 proportionality ontogeny for this assemblage isn't a hornlike target," IBK Securities economist Yoon Chang-Yong told the newswire.

The bicentric slope is widely tipped to move tightening this assemblage after upbringing its key evaluate by 25 foundation points to 2.75 proportionality this period to curb inflation.

Park Hyung-Joong at Woori Investment and Securities expects the slope to raise the evaluate by 100 foundation points to 3.75 proportionality by the end of the year.

Exports chromatic 2.4 proportionality quarter-on-quarter in the ordinal lodge after expanding 1.7 proportionality threesome months earlier.

Private spending swollen 0.3 percent, slowing from a 1.3 proportionality acquire in July-September.

Facility assets shrunken 1.6 proportionality after growing 5.5 proportionality in the ordinal quarter, patch cerebration assets lapse 4.5 proportionality compared with a 1.3 proportionality acquire in the ordinal quarter.

-- Dow designer Newswires contributed to this report --

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