{"id":582564,"date":"2026-04-03T09:16:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T09:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/582564\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T09:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T09:16:19","slug":"south-koreas-indebted-households-squeezed-as-war-lifts-mortgage-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/582564\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea&#8217;s indebted households squeezed as war lifts mortgage costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/iran-tensions\/iran-war\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran war<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Variable-rate exposure leaves borrowers vulnerable as volatility hits credit markets<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/9\/3.jpeg\" alt=\"20260402 Korea Apartment\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">A large apartment complex is seen from Namsan Tower in central Seoul on Oct. 24, 2024.\u00a0 \u00a9 AP<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">SEOUL &#8212; A surge in global bond yields triggered by escalating Middle East tensions is driving up mortgage costs in South Korea, squeezing highly leveraged households and testing the resilience of one of Asia&#8217;s most debt-laden economies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran war Variable-rate exposure leaves borrowers vulnerable as volatility hits credit markets A large apartment complex is seen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,32445,164,42930,285350,211125,28330,21131,8080,285351,6900],"class_list":{"0":"post-582564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-costs","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-households","14":"tag-indebted","15":"tag-koreas","16":"tag-lifts","17":"tag-mortgage","18":"tag-south","19":"tag-squeezed","20":"tag-war"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}