{"id":156217,"date":"2025-11-27T11:14:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T11:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/156217\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T11:14:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T11:14:16","slug":"south-korea-central-bank-maintains-rates-as-won-weakens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/156217\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea central bank maintains rates as won weakens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Bank of Korea keeps lid on excessive borrowing amid heated housing market<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/5\/8.jpeg\" alt=\"20251126 bank of korea\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">The Bank of Korea&#8217;s policy decision to keep rates unchanged is in line with market expectations. (Photo by Kotaro Hosokawa)<\/p>\n<p>STEVEN BOROWIEC<\/p>\n<p>November 27, 2025 09:55 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">SEOUL &#8212; South Korea&#8217;s central bank held its key policy rate steady at 2.5% on Thursday as it seeks to quell concerns over rising home prices and foreign exchange vulnerability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economy Bank of Korea keeps lid on excessive borrowing amid heated housing market The Bank of Korea&#8217;s policy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1643,138,1853,219,13734,60620,111,139,69,7676,1240,103448,26756],"class_list":{"0":"post-156217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-bank","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-central","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-korea","13":"tag-maintains","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-rates","18":"tag-south","19":"tag-weakens","20":"tag-won"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}