South Korea's finance minister Kim Jin Pyo says a stronger Chinese yuan may slow growth in the country's second-biggest overseas market, suggesting he won't join a chorus on nations pushing China to allow its currency to appreciate.

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South Korea's finance minister Kim Jin Pyo says a stronger Chinese yuan may slow growth in the country's second-biggest overseas market, suggesting he won't join a chorus on nations pushing China to allow its currency to appreciate. "If the decision puts the Chinese economy in difficulty. It will hurt Korean exports," Kim says. While the nation needs to relax the yuan's fixed exchange rate in the future, "when it should, by how much, is up to China". South Korea has...