Jinshi data, December 12 news, Citigroup released a report, indicating that the severity of South Korea's economic sentiment deterioration is more serious than expected this month, and slightly lowered the GDP forecast for South Korea for the next two years by 0.1 percentage points to 2.1% and 1.5% respectively. The bank slightly lowered the GDPrise forecast for the end of this year in South Korea by 0.1 percentage point, to a quarterly rise of 0.3%, while raising next year's first quarter GDPrise forecast by 0.1 percentage point, to a quarterly rise of 0.6%. Looking ahead to the first quarter of next year, the bank expects South Korea to adopt an expansionary policy combination, including the Central Bank of South Korea reducing interest rates to 2.75% in mid-January, and the government proposing an additional budget of 30 trillion won (equivalent to about 1.1% of next year's GDP). The bank expects the Central Bank of South Korea to cut interest rates by 25 BP in January, April, July, and October next year, with the final Intrerest Rate expected to be 2%.