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Bank of Korea Highlights Financial Vulnerabilities as Fiscal Expansion Threatens Yield Trajectory
05 Sep 2026
The Bank of Korea published analysis urging the direct integration of macroprudential policy with monetary settings to counter financial system imbalances. Separately, South Korea's announcement of a 162 trillion won Future Response Fund for 2027 has diluted hopes for early policy easing by boosting projected bond issuance.
Why it matters
By emphasising credit accumulation and financial vulnerabilities over traditional inflation-output targets alone, the Bank of Korea signals a structurally higher threshold for policy rate cuts. Coupled with higher sovereign bond yields from fiscal issuance, this provides underlying policy support to the Korean won.