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Seoul shares open down; exporters tumble

Sun May 25, 2008 8:05pm EDT

SEOUL, May 26 (Reuters) - Seoul shares opened lower on Monday, heading for a sixth straight losing session after oil prices hit yet another record on Friday, hammering Wall Street shares to round out their worst week in three months.

The Korea Composite Stock Price Index was down 0.71 percent at 1,814.92 points as of 0002 GMT.

(Reporting by Park Jung-youn; editing by Jonathan Hopfner)



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