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South Korea’s Virus-Hit Currency May Heighten Trump’s Ire

Containers in Incheon New Port in South Korea.

Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg
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South Korea looks like the next big economy in the region to wobble under the strain of coronavirus. As policy makers and financial markets recalibrate, there’s a risk underneath the human and economic toll: tension with the Trump administration.