COVID-19: South Korea duty-free shops experienced sharp drop in sales

South Korea's duty-free shops experienced sharp drop in sales in March amid the coronavirus outbreak, Yonhap reported that "combined sales of local duty-free shops shrank 1.3 percent on-month to 1.8 trillion won (1.5 billion U.S. dollars) last month."

The number is also down 46.2 percent from January, the report noted.

South Korea has recorded a total of 10,738 cases of COVID-19 with 243 deaths as of Tuesday, according to the latest statistics released by Johns Hopkins University. 

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