South Korea's current account posted a surplus for the 74th consecutive month in April,.... but the surplus contracted to a six-year low.<br /> The Bank of Korea says,.... the country's current account surplus was.... one-point-seven billion U.S. dollars in April,.... about half the size of April 2017's three-point-six billion dollar surplus.<br />The Bank attributed the fall to a slight decline in the goods account surplus..... and a sharp rise in dividend payouts, ....which hit a record high of 7-point-5 billion dollars. <br /> But the services account deficit shrunk on a turnaround in Chinese visitors.... as the number of Chinese visitors to Korea was up over 60 percent on-year in April. <br />The travel account deficit for the same month... was around one billion dollars, the lowest since December 2016. <br />
