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The South Korean government said Tuesday it recouped 2.24 trillion won ($2 billion) of bailout funds, mostly used to help financial companies reeling from the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, in the fourth quarter of last year.
The retrieval of taxpayers' money came mostly from the sale of Woori Bank, a major lender here, according to the Financial Services Commission.
The state-run Korea Deposit Insurance Corp. sold its 29.7-percent stake in the bank to seven institutional investors.
The KDIC retains around a 30-percent stake.
The government has extended a total of 168.7 trillion won in bailout funds between November 1997 and December 2016, with 114.3 trillion won, or 67.8 percent retrieved. (Yonhap)
