South Korea\'s parliamentary audit put major financial issues under scrutiny, from a string of hacking incidents to leveraged single-stock ETFs and real estate loan curbs. Lawmakers questioned the effectiveness of regulators\' security inspections and policy measures, and raised issues including market disruption risks, household loan management and internal controls at state-run banks. The audit also addressed the direction of the National Growth Fund and long-term debt collection practices.

Questions were raised at a parliamentary audit over whether IP addresses used in a recent hacking attack on Shinhan Bank also tried to access internet-only banks from January. Lawmaker Kim Hyeong-yeon said differing review periods among financial firms could miss intrusion traces and urged checks of at least one year of records. He criticised a Financial Supervisory Service checklist that does not specify review periods or criteria and called for stronger verification of supporting evidence. Kim also cited delayed incident detection, including a case taking 902 days to identify.