Lee Doo-won, a senior official at the Ministry of Data and Statistics, attends a press conference at the government complex in Sejong, central South Korea, on Sept. 30, 2026, to announce South Korea's industrial output lost ground in August from a month earlier, with retail sales and facility investment also backtracking in a triple whammy for the first time since May. (Yonhap)

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