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South Korea's entire cabinet offered to resign on Tuesday in the face of massive street protests, as its increasingly unpopular president warned that Asia's fourth-largest economy could be heading into crisis.

The protests against the government, in office barely three months, were sparked by public outcry over a deal to widen its market to U.S. beef imports and have cast a darkening cloud over President Lee Myung-bak's plans for sweeping reform.

"The prime minister offered the cabinet's resignation at the regular meeting this morning (with Lee)," a spokeswoman at the prime minister's office said, in what local media said was in response to the mounting anti-government protests.
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By Jon Herskovitz and Yoo Choonsik// Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSSEO2920...
Photo by Jo Yong-Hak// Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/articleslideshow?a...
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