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"These are mind boggling numbers, " said Sung Won Sohn, an economist at the Smith School of Business at California State University.
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"The fear in the markets is that the problem will spread to bigger economies such as Spain and Italy, Europe would not have the resources to handle a crisis of that magnitude, " said Sung Won Sohn, economics professor at California State University.
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That, at least, is the conclusion of MIT grad student Sung Wook Paek, who won the 2012 Move an Asteroid Technical Paper Competition with his proposal.
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In addition, Korean Finance Minister Lee Kyu Sung says the government will provide 50 trillion won by year's end to spur new lending and bring capital adequacy ratios to the 8% recommended for international banks.
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