South Korea Sees Strongest Growth in Nearly a Year

South Korea, Asia’s fourth-largest economy, grew at the fastest clip in nearly a year thanks to a recovery in exports, the central bank said Thursday, despite a backlash from Chinese consumers over the deployment of a U.S. missile defense system. The economy expanded 2.7 percent during the January-March period over a year earlier, higher than the 2.4 percent growth during the previous quarter and the strongest since the second quarter, Bank of Korea said in its preliminary results. On...

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