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South Korea's central bank, which sets monetary policy via its Monetary Policy Board, manages the won, and oversees inflation targeting.
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Prices for 24 of Korea's 26 most-bought processed foods rose on year in August as factory hikes by Lotte Chilsung, Coca-Cola and CJ CheilJedang hit shelves. Whether it is a one-off catch-up or a spread into other foods decides how long it lasts.
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Finance Minister Lee Hyoung-il has made Korea's K-shaped divide his ministry's second-half priority as chips lift growth to about 3%. He has pledged all available fiscal resources for housing, jobs and consumer finance to produce results the public can feel quickly.
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South Korea cut October Treasury bond issuance by 5 trillion won and plans 3.5 trillion won of buybacks as US 10-year yields hit their highest since 2002. Both steps manage supply, so the level of won yields still depends on what US Treasuries do next.
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South Korean consumer prices rose 2.9% in September, a pace 0.4 points faster than August once last year's telecom-discount base effect is removed. Core inflation is at about its highest this year, and the Bank of Korea sees October near 3%, against a 2% target.
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Executives from five digital-asset firms said the Bank of Korea's bank-led won stablecoin model gives banks little reason to build new payment networks. A won token has to settle payments more cheaply than existing networks to be useful, and the central bank's model gives issuance to the institutions that run those networks.
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Bank of Korea research across 4,460 panel observations finds households with more won-spike experience cut spending less when the currency weakens. For forecasters, how hard a weak won hits consumption now depends on cohort mix and household balance sheets.
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Woori Bank raised its one-year corporate deposit rate to 4.09% on September 30, up 1.12 points this year. With companies supplying about 80% of Korean bank deposits, that posted rate now sits within 0.6 points of what banks charged on new mortgages in August.
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Korea will open its token securities market in February while the stablecoin bill needed for on-chain settlement still has no committee hearing date. Until stablecoins are linked to the securities ledger, overseas buyers must convert currency and remit through banks to buy Korean tokens.
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Korea Exchange will route the Bank of Korea's first physical gold buying in 13 years into block trades separate from ordinary orders starting Dec. 14. The 4 to 5 tons a year in view is gold two producers had been exporting, so the price that counts is the one the bank agrees with them directly.
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Finance Minister Lee Hyoung-il, six days in office, agreed with Bank of Korea Governor Shin Hyun-song to watch four linked markets as one risk. The pact runs through meetings that already exist, so its main effect is to tell investors how Seoul will judge a move in any one market.
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Samsung Life and Hanwha Life cut savings crediting rates to 2.28% and 2.18%, under a 2.40% deposit rate, while treasury yields rose about 1.4 points. New savings policies are priced off a regulatory average that those cuts pull down, so premiums are set to rise next year.
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South Korean newlyweds' median debt reached 179 million won in 2024, 2.3 times the 2016 figure, national statistics show. With the Bank of Korea raising rates, the risk now sits in the interest bills of households with relatively little time to build income and assets.
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Bank of Korea says momentum behind domino price hikes is building, with more than 30 firms announcing increases this year against 32 in all of last year. The bank's bad-case oil scenario adds four times as much to next year's inflation as to this year's.
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South Korea's government wants authority to move a tax windfall of more than 60 trillion won into a new fund while the Bank of Korea is raising rates. Whether the money repays deficit bonds or feeds fund spending will help decide how far rates have to rise.
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Upbit's parent gets Visa's network and a shortlist that includes an unlaunched consortium dollar coin. There is no launch date yet, because Seoul's draft law may reserve won-stablecoin issuance for bank-controlled groups.
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The August hike came with staff work arguing that terms-of-trade income becomes inflation once households spend it, which puts the next decision on the consumption data rather than on the export headline.
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A Bank of Korea note tracks Korean value added on its way to American buyers. Between 2016 and 2022 the share moving through Southeast Asia rose by less than the share through China fell, while direct shipments held near three-quarters.
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Semiconductor exports and chip investment took the OECD's 2026 forecast for South Korea from 1.7% in March to 3.7%, the largest upgrade in the G20. Korea's own institutions sit half a point lower, at 3.2%.
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South Korea's chip recovery arrived in the Bank of Korea's 2024 input-output tables as more output, much more value added and a slightly smaller payroll. The tables attribute the boom to a recovery in chip demand.
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Korea's largest savings banks fund multi-year loans with deposits coming due inside twelve months, and industry data for the end of June measures the gap bank by bank at the biggest lenders.
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