{
  "id": 3643417,
  "title": "The insurance industry recorded a net profit of 9 trillion won in the first half of the year.\n\nLife insurance companies made more profit from investments than their core business.\n\nAccording to the Financial Supervisory Service on the 29th, the net profit of insurance companies in the first half of this year was 9.09 trillion won, up 3.4% from 8.78 trillion won in the same period last year.\n\nThe net profit of life insurance companies was 4.51 trillion won, up 5.8% from 4.26 trillion won in the same period last year.\n\nIn the case of life insurance companies, their profit from core business such as insurance contracts decreased by 1.1% to 1.53 trillion won, but their investment profit increased by 10.3% to 3.34 trillion won.\n\nThe net profit of non-life insurance companies was 4.58 trillion won, up 1.1% from 4.52 trillion won in the same period last year.\n\nThe Financial Supervisory Service analyzed that \"the insurance industry's net profit increased due to a decrease in the loss ratio and an increase in investment profit.\"\n\nThe loss ratio of life insurance companies in the first half of this year was 77.1%, down 1.6 percentage points from 78.7% in the same period last year.\n\nThe loss ratio of non-life insurance companies was 83.1%, down 0.6 percentage points from 83.7% in the same period last year.\n\nThe investment profit of insurance companies increased by 10.8% to 11.47 trillion won.\n\nThe Financial Supervisory Service said, \"The insurance industry's profit is expected to improve in the second half of the year as the interest rate is expected to rise and the value of investments such as stocks and bonds will increase.\"",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/9",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-27T00:18:16.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Hankyoreh",
    "slug": "hankyoreh",
    "url": "https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/economy/finance/1274876.html"
  },
  "original_language": "ko",
  "account": null,
  "summary": null,
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
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        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/9-1882354",
        "published": "2026-08-19T04:54:50.000Z"
      },
      {
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        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/9-2335986",
        "published": "2026-08-21T07:28:23.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "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."
}