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 President Park Geun-hye postponed a U.S. visit to supervise the
handling of the outbreak, as two more people died and 13 new cases
were reported, lifting the total number of patients to 108.
Department store sales in the period fell 25 percent from an average
of the first two weeks of May, the data showed. Sales at discount
stores fell 7.2 percent, but online purchases rose 3.2 percent.
Cinema ticket sales dropped 54.9 percent in the first week of June
from the year-earlier period. Visitors to amusement parks plummeted
60.4 percent and to baseball games, 38.7 percent.
Museums and art galleries suffered the same fate, with drops of 81.5
percent and 48.3 percent, respectively.
Finance Minister Choi Kyung-hwan asked South Koreans in a briefing
on Wednesday not to be excessively worried and urged consumers to
continue spending money.
(Reporting by Christine Kim; Editing by Nick Macfie)
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