Bloomberg Intelligence says nine tenths of last month's net time-deposit inflow at the five major banks came from companies. Chipmakers locking in fixed rates make bank funding dearer for everyone else.
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Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption57
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives38
- Confidence41
Sh Suhyup Bank says the fisheries federation will fund its acquisitions. The capital ratio paying for them came mostly from a 22.4% fall in risk-weighted assets, not from new equity.
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- Evidence42
- Adoption48
The July index rose 0.13 points to 3.18%, and KB Kookmin and Woori reprice variable mortgages from the 19th. The tax change that might ease the exit is now being renegotiated.
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- Evidence52
- Adoption64
Seoul home prices rose 1.09% in July, wider than June, with the steepest gains in the city's cheaper northern districts. The bid is rotating into redevelopment stories, not fading.
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- Evidence62
- Adoption52
Seoul wants top-three status by 2035 on more than 1,000 trillion won. The inaugural director of its National AI Research Hub says the money is budgeted on the wrong clock.
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- Evidence32
- Adoption28
Foreign investors net bought 8.0698 trillion won of Korean stocks in four days after selling 7.1 trillion won the week before. The round trip says more about flows than fundamentals.
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- Evidence38
- Adoption55
Most sites for the public housing units held back on Aug. 13 sit in protected land near Gangnam, Songpa and Hanam. The ministry says it will name candidate locations by early October.
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- Evidence42
- Adoption48
Seoul's central bank folded Pyongyang research into a unit also covering supply chains, critical minerals and strategic materials. Insiders worry the older expertise erodes.
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- Evidence38
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap
Peak demand hit 75.99 GW on August 15 against a 98.8 GW official projection. The number that matters is solar's 14.3 GW swing between a sunny peak and a rainy holiday.
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- Evidence58
- Adoption68
The Korea Consumer Agency says the category's main selling point describes a compound chemically identical to prescription melatonin, and 58 of 100 ads it reviewed were misleading.
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Reality
- Evidence46
- Adoption52
Mortgages and borrowed money for stock buying drove a 21.1 trillion won second quarter. The bill now arrives as lending rates reprice upward.
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Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap
The count of 12-month products paying 4% or more fell from 165 to 32 in a month. That pricing was a funding bid, not a rate signal, and the bid has been filled.
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- Evidence58
- Adoption74
Project Crystal Sun lands on top of $16.8 billion for Terafab. The incentive requested is a 10-year property tax abatement, and the filing names an unspecified alternative site outside Texas.
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Reality
- Evidence28
- Adoption14
The round trip through Direxion's Semiconductor Bull 3X reads as leveraged momentum rather than a view on chips, and one fund now absorbs most of Korea's net US equity flow.
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Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption74
Critics of the New Leap Fund say advanced economies do not run standing funds to cancel individual loans, which moves the design question from state purchases to lender incentives.
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Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption38