SEOUL: South Korea's central bank kept its key interest rate steady for a sixth straight month Thursday, defying expectations of a rate cut as pressure grows to help accelerate economic recovery.
The Bank of Korea policymakers left the benchmark inter-bank lending rate at 2.75 percent - after two cuts in July and October last year.
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