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The South Korean government posted the biggest budget deficit in history in the first half of this year on a combination of high spending to stop COVID-19... and a drop in tax revenue.
According to the finance ministry, the government's gross revenue came to about 191 billion U.S. dollars in the period between January to June, a drop on year of around 16-point-9 billion dollars.
Government spending soared by around 26-and-a-half billion dollars to more than 266 billion.
That increase was largely because of the government's disaster relief payouts.