S. Korea's industrial output sinks 10.3 pct in Feb.

SEOUL, March 31 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's industrial output continued its
double-digit contraction in February as demand for semiconductors and automobiles
declined due to a deepening global recession, a government report showed Tuesday.
According to the report by the National Statistical Office (NSO), production in
the mining and manufacturing sectors shrank 10.3 percent last month from a year
earlier, compared with a revised 25.5 percent on-year decline in January.
The February data marked the fourth consecutive month of double-digit contraction
but was better than a median estimate of a 14.7 percent decline in a poll
conducted by Yonhap Infomax, the financial news arm of Yonhap News Agency.
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