SEOUL, Sept 29 (Reuters) - South Korea is expected to post a sharp increase in its current account surplus this month from August thanks to brisk exports, although the travel account is expected to continue to show a shortfall, a central bank official said on Wednesday.
"It is highly likely for the current account surplus to easily top our earlier forecast of $21 billion for the whole of this year," Lee Young-bog, head of the Bank of Korea's balance of payments statistics team, told reporters at a briefing. (Reporting by Kim Yeon-hee; Editing by Ken Wills)