{"id":1156538,"date":"2026-02-04T13:42:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T08:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.app.com.pk\/national\/koreas-foreign-reserves-fall-for-2nd-month-in-january\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T13:42:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T08:42:44","slug":"koreas-foreign-reserves-fall-for-2nd-month-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/koreas-foreign-reserves-fall-for-2nd-month-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Korea&#8217;s foreign reserves fall for 2nd month in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SEOUL, Feb 4 (WAM\/APP): The Republic of Korea&#8217;s foreign reserves fell for the second consecutive month in January amid government efforts to stabilise the foreign exchange market, the central bank said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The country&#8217;s foreign reserves stood at US$425.91 billion as of end-January, down $2.15 billion from a month earlier, according to data from the Bank of Korea (BOK).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the Yonhap News Agency, this marked the second straight monthly decline, after the reserves fell in December for the first time since June.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The country&#8217;s reserve position with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) increased by $10 million from a month earlier to $4.3 billion at the end of last month, the data showed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Republic of Korea ranked as the world&#8217;s ninth-largest holder of foreign reserves as of end-December.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Korea&#8217;s foreign reserves fall for 2nd month in January<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1156546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","_speechable_audio":"","_speechable_word_timings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[7199,7200],"post_template":[],"top_category":[],"class_list":["post-1156538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global","tag-bok","tag-koreas-foreign","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1156538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1156546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1156538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1156538"},{"taxonomy":"post_template","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_template?post=1156538"},{"taxonomy":"top_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/top_category?post=1156538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}