SEOUL: South Korea’s economy grew at its slowest pace in more than a year in the final quarter of 2016, its central bank said Wednesday, rattled by a scandal engulfing impeached President Park Geun-Hye.

The Bank of Korea (BOK) said in a statement that gross domestic product expanded 0.4 percent during the October to December period, compared to the previous three months when it grew 0.6 percent.

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