Heads of South Korea's leading economic think tanks predicted Sunday the country will have a hard time pulling off growth reaching the upper 3 percent range in 2015 mainly due to weak domestic consumption and sluggish export conditions.
The leading economists said in a poll that the South Korean economy will be weighed down by expectations of interest rates going up in the United States, slowing down of growth in China and India, and deflation concerns in Japan and the eurozone.