S.Korea's export posts double-digit fall for 3 months over COVID-19

SEOUL, July 1 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's export posted a double-digit fall for three straight months through June on an economic fallout from the COVID-19 outbreak across the world, a government report showed Wednesday. Export, which takes up about half of the export-driven economy, came in at 39.21 billion U.S. dollars in June, down 10.9 percent from the same month of last year, according to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. Import slipped 11.4 percent over the year to 35.55 billion dollars in June, sending the trade surplus to 3.66 billion dollars. In May, the trade surplus was 446 million dollars. The...