The bank that no-one believed in

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The bank that no-one believed in

The story of a handful of Korea's failed banks appears to have taken on fairy tale proportions. Merged into a single holding company, revived and thriving under the new name Woori Financial Group, these once doomed banks have undergone a transformation that no-one would have dared predict. Chris Wright reports.

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