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Crumbling markets for Korean cars, ships and electronics and shrivelling domestic demand are piling pressure on the central bank to cut interest rates again to cushion an economy that analysts say may shrink in 2009 for the first time in a decade. Exports from Asia's fourth-largest economy fell 17.4 percent to $27.29 billion in December while imports dropped 21.5 percent to $26.62 billion, the Ministry of Knowledge Economy said. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast a 16.4 percent drop in exports and a 19. The numbers reinforced the case for a rate cut next week of between a quarter and half a percentage point from a record low 3 percent, said Park Sang-hyun, chief economist at HI Investment & Securities. "I expect the Bank of Korea to lower rates to 2 percent by the end of the first half, but we may see lower rates than that as the economy may post negative growth in the first quarter," Park said. The Bank of Korea meets on January 9 to review policy and has slashed interest rates by 2.25 percentage points in two months. The won currency fell more than 5 percent against the dollar after the export data. March treasury bond futures fell 15 ticks to 112.46 by 0132 GMT. The stock market's benchmark KOSPI was down a slight 0.4 percent. Korean stocks and bonds and the won were hammered last year as investors fled riskier assets after global financial crisis led to bank failures in the United States and pushed most industrial economies into recession. TRADE SURPLUS NEXT YEAR The economy ministry said it expected exports to grow just 1 percent in 2009, the slowest pace in eight years. Imports would fall 4.7 percent, it said. The slump in imports, driven by both falling domestic demand and a drop of 70 percent in cost of oil since July, will help South Korea run a trade surplus of $11.9 billion surplus in 2009, the ministry said. The 2008 trade deficit of $13 billion was the biggest since in 1996. South Korea sends more than one-fifth of total exports to China. Officials have said about half that number is re-exported to markets such as the United States, Europe and Japan which are all in recession. The global economic slump has added urgency to the reform debate in South Korea. The ruling, conservative Grand National Party, says it wants to pass 85 bills that include easing rules on bank ownership to help the economy through the slowdown. But dozens of reforms have been blocked because of squabbling politicians. Much of the row centers on a free trade bill with the United States. Continued... 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