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Korea's industrial output rises at slowest pace in 2014
Korea posted the worst output growth last year. Statistics Korea says the country's output across all industries went up a mere 1-point-1 percent in 2014 from a year earlier. That marks the slowest pace of growth since the year 2000 when the agency started to compile related data. The agency attributed the sluggish growth to an overall downturn last year as the economy was hit hard...
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