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NH NongHyup Bank's new farmland-backed loans fell 18.1% to 523.2 billion won from March to August as South Korea surveyed farm ownership. Appraised collateral behind those loans fell 19.3%, so farmers can borrow less against their main asset while field inspections continue.
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South Korea's defense ministry plans to shrink the active-duty force to about 350,000 by 2040 while raising officers and NCOs to 63% of it. That design rests on hiring and keeping about 28,500 more career personnel than the military has today.
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President Lee Jae-myung ordered a full probe of hacks that exposed data at four Korean banks, including about 25,000 Shinhan Bank customers. The response runs through every financial industry association before the probe has shown whether the banks share a weak point.
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Samsung and SK Hynix are committing about $518 billion to new Gwangju memory fabs, the largest line in South Korea's roughly $900 billion decade plan. Company balance sheets supply much of that capital, so the two chipmakers will set how fast the new supply actually arrives.
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Donald Trump threatened to double what South Korea pays unless Seoul backs an Alaska LNG stake Howard Lutnick put at more than $50 billion. Ahead of the Nov. 3 midterms, that pressure is landing on allies while Trump keeps a trade truce with China.
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Donald Trump threatened tariffs of 150% to 300% on foreign firms that do not build US plants within about 18 months, a day after pressing Seoul on Alaska LNG. Seoul says it has only agreed to review that project, so its $350 billion pledge is still being bargained over.
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South Korea's People Power Party wants intelligence agencies in a joint probe of hacks it says have hit six lenders, four of them commercial banks. Its spokesperson concedes the attacker is unknown, so whether the six share one cause will decide who answers for them.
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South Korea's Hanwha Systems-built Cheongwang laser downed two of four drones at its public debut, at 10,000 to 20,000 won of electricity a shot. Its 30-kilowatt Block I is rated for small North Korean drones at two to three kilometres, a narrower job than the US and Chinese lasers it is measured against.
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South Korea replaced its Prosecutors' Office with two agencies on October 2, leaving prosecutors able to charge but no longer investigate. Anyone facing a serious-crimes probe now deals with investigators at one agency and a charging decision at another.
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Korea Rural Community Corporation says it could owe 1.3 trillion won in fines if assigned 1 gigawatt of renewables a year and it builds none. The estimate lands as the agriculture ministry fights to keep a farm-water agency out of Korea's renewable quota.
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Lee Jae-myung promoted four serving officials to his economic team on October 1, among them the regulator behind Seoul's 600 million won mortgage cap. With his approval rating falling partly over housing, the lineup points to firmer lending rules and heavier holding taxes in his second year.
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South Korea's opposition says the agency replacing the Prosecution Service drew applicants for only 68% of its authorized posts before opening on October 2. By that count, the new investigative body starts nearly a third short of its planned staff even if every applicant is hired.
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Trump said South Korea plans to invest about $54 billion in Alaska's gas pipeline, but President Lee Jae Myung's party says it is not finalized. Seoul still has to test the project's commercial viability, so for now the figure is an announcement made weeks before a close Alaska Senate race.
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Seoul High Court jailed Genencell founder Kang for four years, ruling that 600 million won paid to a broker was compensation for lobbying via a lawmaker. The ruling contradicts one of the two reasons prosecutors gave in 2024 for suspending the indictment of lawmaker Kim Seung-won.
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South Korea launched the Daeho Kim Jong-seo at HD Hyundai Heavy Industries' Ulsan yard, the sixth and last ship of its 19-year Aegis destroyer program. President Lee Jae-myung named nuclear-powered submarines as the Navy's next core asset, so the yard's next multi-year naval order depends on that pledge becoming a funded program.
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Korea will let new solar plants connect past full grids in parts of Honam and Chungcheong from Oct. 1, raising line limits to 16 MW in exchange for curtailment. On the ministry's own solar output figures those limits rarely force a cut, so the risk developers have to price sits on Honam's saturated transmission network and in storage costs.
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Korea's Fair Trade Commission and ruling party plan to let ministries pull registrations of firms in 17 industries that collude twice in five years. For refiners and drugmakers, a second cartel finding would put the right to operate at stake on top of heavier fines.
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Korea and Mexico concluded talks on a revised investment treaty after seven years of deadlock, guaranteeing fund transfers even in a currency crisis. It covers Korean money when it is hardest to move, though the one new plant named is a carpet factory.
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South Korea will remit a first $2.2 billion for its US projects, including a $22.3 billion Texas LNG plant, once Trump announces them. Last year's agreement makes his public word the trigger, so his crowded diplomatic calendar now sets the payment date.
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A 0.38 percent margin in Seoul and Gyeonggi left Kim with an 8.41-point cumulative lead into the Aug 17 convention. The genuinely contested race is now the supreme council, not the chair.
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