South Korea's national net assets rise to $11.6 trillion
Staff Writer | June 14, 2017National net assets in South Korea rose last year on the back of higher land valuation, a joint report from the Bank of Korea (BOK) and Statistics Korea showed Wednesday.

Asia Higher land valuation
The increase was mainly attributed to higher valuation of non-productive assets such as land and buildings.
Land assets expanded 6.2 percent last year, taking up over half of the total national net assets.
Non-financial assets, which include real estate, buildings, facilities and intellectual property rights, accounted for 97.4 percent of the total national net assets.
The trickle-down effect was not found as more wealth coming from economic growth moved to companies than households.
The portion of assets owned by households and non-profit organizations was 57.6 percent of the total as of end-2016, down 0.4 percentage points from a year earlier.
The growth rate of households' net assets slowed down from 6.2 percent in 2015 to 5.0 percent in 2016, but the figure for non-financial companies accelerated from 7.5 percent to 8.9 percent in the same period. ■