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Speaker 2: The Marshall law te CREB last night has been lifted

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Speaker 2: Hard to predict the political dynamics, but I believe that

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Speaker 4: So do you think you've done enough so far? No?

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Speaker 2: What is you now is actually I'm very happy that

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Speaker 3: So but on the other hand, we by.

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Speaker 2: As I mentioned this, this political event was very short

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Speaker 3: then you know this kind of fight is.

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Speaker 2: Not affecting our fundamentals and change our STOMA operation. And actually,

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Speaker 2: if you look at today, our financial market functions very well.

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Speaker 3: The risk is there, but I think I'm not downplaying

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Speaker 3: the risks. There is a risk, but like an other countries,

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Speaker 3: but that risk is given. The nature of the risks

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Speaker 3: is within the you know, a range of range of

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Speaker 3: the what you can manage.

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Speaker 1: Governor, Thank you so much for your time. Governor Yichang

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Speaker 1: Yong joining us live from Seaul