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Korea’s political crisis deepens

Korea’s political crisis has continued to deepen and looks likely to drag on, possibly for months. For the economy though, little has changed. The outlook was already difficult, with a lame duck president, exporters including Samsung struggling and a household sector burdened with high levels of debt.

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