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Record Breaking Household Debt, Real Ticking Bomb of Korean Economy

SEOUL, April 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Household loans extended by local banks rose at a fast clip in March due to a large increase in mortgage loans, central bank data showed Monday. Outstanding household loans extended by lenders here came to 649 trillion won (US$564.2 billion) as of end-March, up 4.9 trillion won from the [...]

[Kobiz Feature] “Household Debt”: Time Bomb Waiting to Explode

SEOUL, Korea, Jan 03 (Korea Bizwire) – Last year Korea’s economy was wobbled by the concerns of a tapering of the U.S. Fed’s quantitative easing policy. If the American monetary authorities start reducing the bank’s US$85 billion in monthly bond purchases, the reasoning went, the won-dollar exchange rate would fluctuate wildly and send huge shock waves to [...]