MARKETSSTORY 830· JULY 24, 2026

South Korea's president invokes Japan's property collapse to warn against real-estate concentration

Asset concentration means a country's households are holding too much of their wealth in one category of investment. South Korea's president, Lee, says that category is real estate, and he pointed to Japan to show what happens when the bet…

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