Bank of Korea's 2025 overseas asset income nears 17 trillion won

South Korea's central bank data released on Sunday showed that driven by the depreciation of the won and rising stock markets, the bank's overseas asset returns approached 17 trillion won in 2025. Data submitted to a lawmaker from the main opposition party, the People Power Party, showed that the Bank of Korea's overseas asset returns reached 16.9 trillion won last year, up 32% year-on-year. Overseas asset returns were stable at about 8 trillion won per year from 2016 to 2018, rose to 13.8 trillion won in 2021, and then plunged to 3.9 trillion won in 2022.