KOREA Standard & Poor's has announced a series of ratings actions on a number of Korea's commercial banks this week, lowering the local currency ratings, but lifting the long term foreign currency ratings of Kookmin Bank, Shinhan Bank, Korea Long-Term Credit Bank (KLTCB), Korean French Banking Corp and the Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK). The agency declared that weakened financial conditions will continue, with a concurrent rise in losses on problem assets resulting from a contraction in the domestic economy.
February 27, 1998