August exports: Foreign media: ‘Slowing growth’, Ahn Deok-gyun: ‘largest ever’, Korean media: ‘increasing’, Yoon Seok-yeol 'May export boom' While foreign media reported Korea’s August trade statistics as a ‘slowing growth in exports,’ Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Ahn Deok-gyun said it was a ‘highest performance ever,’ President Yoon Seok-yeol calls it an 'economic boom' based on 'May ..