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Financial System Remains Stable despite Rising Debt Payment Burden, Asset Deterioration: BOK

Financial System Remains Stable despite Rising Debt Payment Burden, Asset Deterioration: BOK

SEOUL, Mar. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s financial system remains relatively stable, but debt payment burden and asset deterioration may increase amid extended monetary tightening, a central bank report showed Thursday. In its report on financial stability, the Bank of Korea (BOK) said despite woes over a possible rise in soured property development-related loans [...]

Yoon Pledges Support for Small Business Owners with Debt Burden

Yoon Pledges Support for Small Business Owners with Debt Burden

SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk Yeol pledged on Thursday to implement various policy support measures aimed at assisting small business owners and vulnerable groups struggling with loan repayments due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yoon made the remarks during a government-public debate, the 10th in a series of sessions [...]

Taeyoung Receives 96 Pct of Support from Creditors for Debt Restructuring

Taeyoung Receives 96 Pct of Support from Creditors for Debt Restructuring

SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Troubled builder Taeyoung Engineering & Construction Co. has received 96.1 percent of support from creditors to move forward with a debt restructuring program, its main creditor said Friday. The level of support was higher than the 75 percent that Taeyoung was required to have for the debt rescheduling program, [...]

New Study: Failing Global Debt System Costs Lives

New Study: Failing Global Debt System Costs Lives

New York, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — New research supported by the Open Society Foundations shows that increasing delays in resolving sovereign debt crises in some of the world’s poorest countries are significantly adding to the human cost of defaults—cutting economic growth, reducing life-expectancy, and worsening child mortality rates. The analysis, The Human Costs of the [...]

Debt Among Those in 20s, 30s Jumps Most During Pandemic

Debt Among Those in 20s, 30s Jumps Most During Pandemic

SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Debt among those in their 20s and 30s jumped more than 27 percent over the past three years since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, indicating they suffered financial difficulties due to rising home prices and an economic slowdown, central bank data showed Sunday. In the fourth quarter of 2022, overall [...]

Debt, Home Ownership Both Rise Among Middle-aged People in 2021: Data

Debt, Home Ownership Both Rise Among Middle-aged People in 2021: Data

SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 60 percent of South Koreans aged between 40 and 64 held debt in 2021 as more people took out loans to purchase houses amid soaring property costs, data showed Tuesday. The proportion of middle-aged South Koreans who borrowed money from banks or other financial institutes came to 57.3 [...]