{
  "id": 2937871,
  "title": "The Real Contest Begins After the Swipe: How KB Kookmin Card Turned Lower Delinquencies into Higher Profit",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/the-real-contest-begins-after-the-swipe-how-kb-kookmin-card-turned",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-24T04:24:16.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Korea IT Times",
    "slug": "korea-it-times",
    "url": "https://www.koreaittimes.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=156363"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The most revealing number in KB Kookmin Card’s first-half results is not its 20.7 percent increase in net profit. It is the decline in the delinquency rate from 1.40 percent to 1.07 percent, accompanied by a fall in the non-performing loan ratio from 1.20 percent to 0.93 percent. The company improve",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}