SEOUL: South Korea’s economic growth fell back to 2.6 percent in 2015, following a slow fourth quarter and the sharpest annual decline in exports since the global financial crisis.

Estimates published by the central Bank of Korea (BOK) on Tuesday saw annual growth come in under the forecast 2.7 percent for the slowest gain since 2012 and down from the previous year’s figure of 3.3 percent.

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