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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.