Overview

• Vice Finance Minister Lee Hyoung-il said the $350 billion commitment is a ceiling to be drawn down case by case through policy financial institutions, with authorities monitoring FX and bond markets.
• The government announced 13.6 trillion won in emergency liquidity and lifted trade insurance to a record 270 trillion won to help companies manage cash flow under new U.S. tariffs.
• Tariff-hit metals supply chains will receive up to 570 billion won this year through interest subsidies, low-rate loans and a new 400 billion won trade finance product.
• Major financial groups and policy banks pledged more than 267 trillion won in loans, guarantees and fee relief through next year to support exporters.
• State lenders will expand crisis lending, with KDB raising exporter loan limits tenfold and Eximbank widening eligibility and cutting rates by up to 2 percentage points, alongside a planned 1 trillion won restructuring fund.