SEOUL, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Bank of Korea Governor Kim Choong-soo said on Monday it would be difficult for now to find an alternative to the U.S. dollar to manage the country's foreign exchange reserves.
The remarks were made in an answer to a lawmaker's question about a possible diversification of the currency reserves into gold and non-dollar currencies.
The U.S. dollar made up 63.1 percent of South Korea's foreign exchange reserves as of the end of 2009. (Reporting by Kim Yeon-hee; Editing by Ken Wills)