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Suicides hint at magnitude of South Korean banking crisis

Korean banks Bad news: Woman reads closure notice outside Korean Savings Bank

Several executives kill themselves amid scandal, shutterings; 'everyone's become a victim'

On the day she was supposed to have appeared before prosecutors for questioning last month, an executive of a shuttered South Korean savings bank hanged herself with her scarf in a Seoul motel.

The woman, identified by the police only as “Kim,” was a credit officer at Mirae Mutual Savin

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