{
  "id": 5106407,
  "title": "Bank Non-Performing Loans Hit 8-Year High",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/02/bank-non-performing-loans-hit-8-year-high",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-02T12:58:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "BusinessKorea",
    "slug": "businesskorea",
    "url": "https://www.businesskorea.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=276035"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Loans that banks have lent to companies and households and have become difficult to recover have approached 19 trillion won (about $13.86 billion). This is the largest amount in 8 years since 2018. Banks wrote off over 6 trillion won in non-performing loans from their books in the second quarter of",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "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."
}