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Loans extended by insurance companies in Korea up in Q4 of 2025: Data

Published: 27 Mar. 2026, 09:25

The Financial Supervisory Service building in Yeouido, western Seoul, is pictured on May 10, 2020. [YONHAP]

Loans extended by insurance companies in Korea rose in the fourth quarter of last year compared to three months earlier, data showed on Friday.

Insurers' outstanding loans reached 265.2 trillion won ($176 billion) as of the end of December 2025, up 3.8 trillion won from three months earlier, according to data from the Financial Supervisory Service.

The on-quarter increase was attributed to a rise in loans extended both to households and businesses.

Their household lending stood at 134 trillion won as of the end of last December, up 700 billion won from the previous quarter, and corporate lending rose by 3.2 trillion won to 131.2 trillion won over the cited period.

The loan delinquency rate, which measures the proportion of loan principal or interest unpaid for at least a month, stood at 0.84 percent at the end of last December, up 0.03 percentage points from three months earlier, according to the financial watchdog.

The rate of insurers' nonperforming loans came to 1.03 percent at the end of December, up 0.05 percentage points from three months earlier, the data showed.

Yonhap