World News | Korean Banks' Net Profit Rises 18.4% in H1

Seoul [South Korea], August 21 (ANI/ WAM): Korean banks' combined net profit jumped more than 18 per cent from a year earlier in the first half of the year on a sharp rise in non-interest income that more than offset a slight drop in interest income, data showed Thursday.

The combined net profit of 20 banks reached 14.9 trillion won (USD 10.66 billion) in the January-June period, marking an increase of 2.3 trillion won, or 18.4 per cent, from 12.6 trillion won a year earlier, figures from the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) showed.

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Interest income fell marginally by 0.1 trillion won, or 0.4 per cent, to 29.7 trillion won over the same period.

Yonhap News Agency quoted the FSS as saying that non-interest income came to 5.2 trillion won, up 3.4 trillion won, or 53 per cent, over the cited period. (ANI/ WAM)

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