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South Korea raises household loan growth target to 3 percent, expands housing supply finance to 47.8 trillion won plus alpha
South Korea\'s financial authorities will raise this year\'s target for the growth rate of total household loans to around 3 percent from 1.5 percent. They will expand financial support for housing supply to 47.8 trillion won plus alpha from 26.3 trillion won. The authorities will keep the basic framework of real estate lending curbs, including LTV and DSR limits, while tightening some rules on jeonse loans from January.
Finance
Debt collection market overhaul aims to curb \'primitive predatory finance\'
South Korea\'s financial authorities have begun overhauling the private debt collection market after President Lee Jae-myung publicly criticised practices in collecting long-overdue debt. The plan would shift the business of buying and collecting non-performing loans to a licensing system, limit eligible operators to firms majority-owned by financial companies and raise minimum capital requirements. Regulators say the current market structure fuels long-term and excessive collection and is difficult to supervise effectively.
Games & Commerce
Nexon holding company NXC buys back 1 trillion won of shares paid in kind to government, to cancel them next month
Nexon Group holding company NXC has bought back part of its own shares that the family of late founder Kim Jung-ju paid in kind as inheritance tax. NXC agreed to acquire 184,001 shares from the Ministry of Economy and Finance at 5,558,000 won per share, in a deal worth about 1.02 trillion won, and plans to cancel them next month. The government’s stake falls, while the sale brings in more than 1 trillion won in non-tax revenue.
