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Three years after the 2023 bank-run scare, MG Saemaul Geumgo's flagship pledge to merge or wind down insolvent branches remains largely unexecuted, even as annual net losses narrowed to roughly half the prior year's level. The gap matters because Korea's mutual-credit sector is the weakest link in real estate project financing and construction-related exposure, so unresolved branch-level asset quality keeps a tail risk of deposit flight and forced asset sales that would tighten non-bank funding conditions and pressure KOSPI financials and builders. Watch the pace of announced branch mergers and delinquency-ratio disclosures over coming quarters; renewed deposit outflows or a stalled merger count would revive the 2023-style credit-spread and KRW risk premium channel.
As a Policy signal, watch whether it changes price action, volatility, or flows around KOSPI.
Original Source: 연합인포맥스
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