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Korean Household Debt Leaps in February

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Travel Agency (AXcess News) Hong Kong - South Korean's are looking more and more like Americans every day, at least as far as their spending habits are concerned after a recent report that shows Korean household debt soared in February.

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Last Minute Travel Korean household debt in February increased at the fastest pace in six months as consumers borrowed more to pay for credit card bills, Korea's central bank said yesterday.

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Aloha Airlines Bank lending to households grew by 2.9 trillion won ($2.95 billion) last month from a month earlier to reach 307.1 trillion won, the Bank of Korea said.

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Travel Agent Household loans fell by 488.2 billion won in January.

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Travel Agents The increase in fresh capital demand from households and corporations partly is seen as a budding sign of the economic rebound, the Korea Herald reports.

Discount Airfares While the state-run media portrays it as an economic rebound, in Western views it strikes of inflation, hinting at an interest rate hike possibility in the Asian country. Last week, AXcess News reported that Japan's Central Bank was considering a rate hike after years of lagging economic growth that was so low the government had zero interest rates on the Yen being loaned to banks.

Travel Deals Mortgage loans doubled in February, the Korean Bank reports. That, despite the Korean Bank's crackdown on home investing speculators.

Air Fares The Korean central bank's low interest rate policy was blamed. With record low rates, many Koreans borrowed heavily from banks to invest in the property market. The Bank of Korea raised its benchmark overnight call rate by a quarter percentage point to 4 percent on Feb. 9. It was the third increase in five months and the highest since July 2003.

Travel Insurance Like Greenspan exiting the Federal Reserve in January, Korea's Bank of Korea Governor, Park Seung, four-year term ends March 31st.

Travel State Gov Park, 70, largely maintained a low interest rate policy.

Travel Trailer Last year,Park slowly started a shift toward a tightened monetary policy as the economy began to show signs of a rebound.

Ata Airlines Park began to raise rates in October after slashing rates to a record-low 3.25 percent in November 2004 to spur domestic consumption.

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