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World Service,18 May 2000,26 mins

South Korea Emerges From The Currency Crisis

Global Business

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Following a currency crisis, has South Korea changed enough to compete on a global scale? Korea's post-war economic miracle was build on debt, leading to a currency crisis in 1997. The country's economy now appears to have recovered, after the country effectively ran out of money, as the programme reports.

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