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The 71.9% jump is real, and so is the concentration, but the spending table shows the two cohorts supplying 65% of dermatology are also the thinnest wallets per head, which makes this a volume trade run out of Seoul.
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A 2024 Housing Act change let owners of price-capped homes rent them out for three years. The bill comes due in 2027, and short leases in Gangdong are already pricing the exit.
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The levy collected inside every airfare out of Japan is now funding bear capture and beetle control. For anyone budgeting against it, that is a reliability problem.
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Seoul's row houses already average above the 400 million won ceiling, and the officetels below it average 28 square meters. The credit is real; the eligible housing largely is not.
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The walkout set for the 24th is off and a 17th bargaining round is on at Ulsan. The one booked for the 25th is not, and the hardest demands on the table are the ones that cannot be split.
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Produce shops reached 30,451 in June, up 3.8% on the year. The purchase-cost gap behind their prices is structural, which is why ultra-low-price campaigns are the wrong answer.
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Interest income rose 8.3% to 32.2 trillion won in the first half, but a 5.7 trillion won swing in securities results turned that into a 6.4% profit decline.
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Filings show million-dollar-plus buys and sales landing on June 18, a day after an interim Iran deal was signed. The White House says a computer picked them, and the paperwork cannot say otherwise.
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Visa says card spending is rotating to smaller cities in both directions. Every figure it published is a growth rate off a base it did not, which is not enough to reprice a regional hotel.
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A Bank of Korea paper built on defector surveys finds market-income inequality widened after the 2014-2015 drought and power crunch, driven by the bottom of the distribution, and stayed wide.
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Democratic Party leader Kim Min-seok backs the overhaul's direction and wants the exemption list read broadly. The 900 million won deduction may hold; the number of owners it reaches may not.
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Korea's development fund will finance an AI institute in Tanzania that only Korean firms can build, and the same meeting rewrote the rules so Seoul can pitch such projects itself.
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Seoul's midday meal has passed 10,000 won, and the biggest burger chain's answer is a second, cheaper price list rather than a cheaper menu board.
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Consensus asks Nvidia for a 16% sequential step and July core PCE for exactly 3.3%, while the Bank of Korea is expected to upgrade growth into the 3% range. Positioning now owns all three.
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The Seoul Administrative Court held that a missing committee member and a skipped secret ballot void the dismissals of three R&D staff, whatever the strength of the leak allegations.
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A union survey of 1,538 employees puts outright intent to leave at 69.7%, and 92.5% among under-40s. The firms the watchdog inspects would face a thinner bench for years.
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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.
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Apgujeong's Shin Hyundai now lists 4.21 billion won below December's record. Apgujeong logged one sale in 20 days and Banpo two, against four and 12 a year earlier.
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The central bank ties 268,000 of a 285,000 fall in jobs for 15- to 29-year-olds to AI-exposed industries. Exposure is not causation, but the vanishing rung it describes is real.
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The central bank argues the second-quarter collapse in net external financial assets reflects foreigners' Korean equity gains, and points investors to net external claims instead.
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