S.Korea's online shopping continues to rise in double digits in May


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SEOUL (Xinhua): South Korea's online shopping continued to rise in double digits in May as people refrained from shopping outside amid the fear of the Covid-19 outbreak, statistical office data showed on Friday (July 3).

Consumers' purchase in the cyberspace reached 12.7 trillion won (US$10.6 billion) in May, up 13.1 per cent from a year earlier, according to Statistics Korea.

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