Korea will cut the Onnuri voucher's upfront discount to 5% and pay up to 5% more at traditional markets, on issuance trimmed to 4.6 trillion won. With 65% of redemptions already at markets, much of the rebate pays for spending the program already had.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption55
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives60
- Confidence50
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.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence50
Lee Hyoung-il told the National Assembly that virtual assets belong in the other-income category and that the National Tax Service will publish the operative rules by the end of this year, while capital gains taxation of securities waits for calmer markets.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+5
- Incentives50
- Confidence60
The 2026 revision, before parliament since Sept. 3, would pay the one-home long-term deduction at 8% for each year of residence, drop years of ownership entirely in 2029, and cap the deduction at 1 billion won.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives60
- Confidence45
Bills before the National Assembly's National Policy Committee would cap food delivery commissions. The Seoul Economic Daily puts brokerage at about 7.8% of an order and calls riders' delivery charges the bigger cost to owners.
Reality
- Evidence33
- Adoption45
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives66
- Confidence37
The trade ministry takes the program to two National Assembly committees behind closed doors on the 22nd, five days later than planned, with a Texas gas plant, large reactors and Alaska LNG on the agenda.
Reality
- Evidence35
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives55
- Confidence45
Two weeks after being named minister of gender equality and family, Yong Hye-in gave up the nomination at a National Assembly news conference on the 13th and said she will go back to her work as a lawmaker.
Reality
- Evidence76
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives72
- Confidence74
The 2021 exemption for jointly titled single-home owners saves one 63-year-old couple 248,000 won and would cost a 49-year-old couple 5.28 million, so the National Tax Service will now calculate it and refund past overpayers.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives65
- Confidence55
The National Tax Service says its review found about 5,700 taxpayers who should apply for the joint-owner option and about 2,900 who should cancel it, and it will bill each of them at the cheaper figure in November.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption32
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives66
- Confidence51
A bill to carve residential land out of Yongsan Park is before the National Assembly, and the urban planner arguing against it puts the alternative at 500,000 to 1 million homes around Seoul's subway stations.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption15
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives60
- Confidence50
A plenary vote on the 26th would clear Camp Kim for apartments, but MOLIT and Seoul still disagree over the park itself, and that split is what sets the supply timeline.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption14
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives72
- Confidence42
Seoul plans to park above-trend tax revenue in a Future Response Fund for AI and advanced industry, estimated at a minimum of 100 trillion won next year, with 20% reallocation latitude.
Reality
- Evidence44
- Adoption12
- Hype gap+34
- Incentives66
- Confidence41
The 20.79% share of domestic taxes goes away after 55 years. Grants will track nominal growth with demographic decline counted at 35%, and the gap flows to a new Future Response Fund.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption18
- Hype gap+27
- Incentives74
- Confidence55
Hypermarket share of Korean retail fell 13.6 points since 2018 while online passed half of all sales. New research finds neighbouring shops gain when the malls open.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption32
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives55
- Confidence48