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Economy needs major surgery: S Korea's Park
President says this is necessary to solve nation's chronic and structural problems
Published Thu, Aug 6, 2015 · 09:50 PM
Seoul
SOUTH Korea's president called on Thursday for "major surgery" on the economy, which faces slowing growth and increasing challenges as she approaches the half-way point of her single five-year term.
Park Geun-hye, whose popularity has dipped below 40 per cent, has fallen short on pledges to breathe fresh momentum into As…
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