The Democratic Party of Korea is South Korea's largest liberal political party, currently the ruling party with majority control of the National Assembly.
Lim Kwang-hyun, named chief of staff on the 14th, sponsored a 2024 bill taking minimum inheritance deductions to 1.8 billion won from 1 billion. The reporting shows his view but no government proposal to raise the deductions.
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Seoul wants a services framework law passed this year by excluding healthcare, the issue that has stalled the bill since 2011. Three of the four bills pending in the Assembly already use that carve-out, so the test now is a floor vote.
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Korea's People Power Party wants National Pension Service minutes on a rebalancing delay it says propped up shares before June's elections. With no trade to examine, the January minutes are the one record that could show a motive.
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Only 12.7% of 97 million Korean movie tickets sold from January to September went at list price, Korean Film Council data show. Revenue per admission has fallen since 2022 even as the weekend list price climbed to 15,000 won, so the sticker overstates what a seat brings in.
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Seoul's district offices estimate that taking over small redevelopment approvals from the city would cut up to three years before groundbreaking. The estimate is the districts' own, offered after 64 zones covering 117,000 homes were designated last year.
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Fair Trade Commission data show 22 Korean funeral firms that closed or lost registration in five years held 566.17 billion won in prepayments. The one loss estimate reported, for Agape Life, is about 4.5 billion won of the 11.2 billion won it collected.
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Employers that deducted National Pension premiums but did not remit them left 1,503,427 Korean workers with uncredited months, NPS data show. In 134,616 cases the record would clear the 10-year minimum if those months counted.
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Seoul's southwest faces 5,604 redevelopment relocations next year against 1,651 new apartments, Korea Real Estate Board figures show. Seoul's overall surplus of new homes comes entirely from the southeast, so the strain falls on renters in the city's mid- and lower-priced districts.
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About 675,000 Korean SMEs led by executives aged 60 or older have no successor, the Ministry of SMEs and Startups estimates. Tax relief mostly covers handovers to children, so inside buyers must fund stakes worth tens of billions of won largely alone.
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Korean courts declared bankruptcy in 4 of 131 petitions filed against KOSDAQ companies since January 2016, Korea Exchange data show. Because a filing can halt trading before any judge rules, shareholders outside the creditor dispute bear the cost of weak claims.
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South Korea's land ministry will brief on housing supply every two weeks, leading with third-wave new towns due to start 18,200 units this year. A weekly Moon-era series lasted 21 sessions, so this one will be judged on whether the starts it reports become homes.
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Eight of nine conglomerate caterers feeding South Korea's military never gave to the farm and fishery fund, ministry data shows. Rep. Suh Sam-suk, who released the data, wants donations counted when these defense-funded contracts are awarded.
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Korea's tax arrears under collection rose 2.5-fold to 24.1 trillion won between 2020 and June, National Tax Service data show. The number of people owing grew far more slowly, so most of the increase comes from bigger unpaid balances per debtor.
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South Korea caught 1,132 foreign nationals working illegally as delivery riders between January and August, Justice Ministry data show. Audit testimony traced the gap to platform accounts that change hands with a single verification code, so the identity check covers the account holder and misses the rider.
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Korean opposition lawmaker Park Sung-hoon blamed single-stock leveraged ETFs for 54 trillion won of losses at parliament's audit of the financial regulator. The ruling Democrats called the launch unavoidable, and the hearing as reported produced a fight over who decided it with no proposal to tighten the rules.
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Korea Exchange paused delisting procedures for eight small caps after a court granted injunctions to two of them over its market-cap rule. Some flagged shares hit their daily upper limit on the news, a bet that regulators will soften a test the exchange still applies.
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Seoul apartment jeonse prices are up 8.18% this year, Korea Real Estate Board data show, against 3.83% nationwide. To meet even the minister's lowered forecast, greater Seoul's housing starts would need to run about three times their pace so far.
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Korea's nuclear regulator targets 2032 for SMR review standards, four years after developers such as TerraPower begin seeking construction permits. For SK Innovation's consortium, the delay comes from Seoul's rulebook and staffing, since TerraPower already holds a US construction permit.
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Incheon International Airport Corporation plans its first passenger charge rise in 24 years, lifting the departure fee by 5,000 won to 22,000 won. It also wants landing and other charges to cover 88% of facility costs, double the 2024 share, as duty-free rents fall.
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Seoul High Court gave Genencell founder Kang four years in prison, reversing his acquittal over 600 million won paid to a broker's company. The ruling rests on recorded calls tying that money to an approach to Rep. Kim Seung-won.
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