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NH NongHyup Bank is a South Korean commercial bank run by the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, offering retail and corporate banking.
Korea's five largest banks added 67.1 trillion won of time deposits since end-June while brokerage cash accounts lost 24.2 trillion won. The outflow equals about 36% of the gain, so July and August policy rate increases are a second explanation for the inflow.
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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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President Lee Jae Myung ordered resources onto a breach of customer data at seven Korean financial firms, citing possible AI use in some attacks. What the firms pay will turn on a network law amended five days earlier and on which ministry runs the case.
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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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Victims of breaches at seven Korean lenders, Shinhan Bank among them, are recruiting members for class-action damages suits. With suspects in earlier Korean data cases still uncaught, the lenders look like the only parties those suits can reach.
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Korean regulators sent security orders to about 500 financial firms after the same attacker IP turned up in breaches at seven lenders. Almost every firm doing the emergency reviews has no reported breach, so the cost is shared across the sector.
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Rep. Park Sung-hoon wants authorities to examine how 52 South Korean minors came to hold over 1 billion won in bank deposits, up from 42 seven months earlier. The rise is ten children in a tally that can count one child twice, while billion-won accounts hold about 0.7% of minors' 9.74 trillion won.
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Korea's Financial Services Commission ordered a sector-wide security review after suspected AI-agent hackers hit the country's five largest banks. The three biggest leaks ran through employee, sales and broker tools, so the review's cost lands on systems customers never see.
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South Korea's Financial Services Commission ordered banks and card firms to check every externally reachable IT system after data leaks at four banks. The regulator will collect the returns and use them to build new cybersecurity measures for the financial sector.
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Seoul apartment prices rose 0.09% in the week to Sept. 28, a record 86th straight weekly gain, at a third of late August's pace. Gangnam District fell 0.56%, the steepest of its last six weekly declines, so districts outside Gangnam now carry the citywide gain.
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Woori Bank raised its one-year corporate deposit rate to 4.09% on September 30, up 1.12 points this year. With companies supplying about 80% of Korean bank deposits, that posted rate now sits within 0.6 points of what banks charged on new mortgages in August.
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Renewals hit 50.8% of Seoul apartment jeonse contracts through August as new leases fell 38%, though renewal numbers slipped about 8%. With lease listings down about a sixth and completions set to fall, the share measures how few homes are coming up to let.
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Seoul apartment jeonse listings fell 16.7% in a year to 19,853, with the cheaper northeast and southwest accounting for about 72% of the 3,979 lost. Whether owner-occupancy rules or falling completions removed them decides how much stock easing the rules would bring back.
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NH NongHyup Bank wants 580 local cooperative branches counted in its bid for Jeonnam-Gwangju's 25 trillion won treasury. Counting them would put the cooperatives' fraud record, 322 billion won lost by account holders since 2022, on the same scorecard.
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KB Financial Group earned a record 5.843 trillion won last year and sits behind a rival in each of its five main business lines. Its nomination committee has put a division head, Lee Jae-keun, forward as chairman.
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Technology firms' AI bond issuance is one of the named drivers behind multi-decade highs in long yields. In Korea the transmission ends in roughly 720 trillion won of self-employed debt that reprices, at 1.8 trillion won per quarter point.
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The July-to-August buying averaged 856.46 won per 100 yen against a 857.13 spot, which leaves the cohort ahead by eight hundredths of a percent on a position whose exit costs 1.5 to 2 percent.
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Restrictions ran 2.7 times last year's pace, and most landed after April's 1.5% growth cap. Lawmaker Song Eon-seog says the target has since doubled to 3%.
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Korean ceremony costs average 21.4 million won, and 33.39 million in Gangnam. NongHyup transaction data show the pass-through landing on guests, whose average cash gift rose 6.9% in two years.
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