Monetary stabilization bonds (MSBs) issued by the Bank of Korea have sharply snowballed to 180.6 trillion won (US$168.1 billion) in the first nine months of this year, rising 9.5 percent from a year earlier, the central bank said Thursday.
The hike rate is the fastest since October 2010 when the bond showed a 10.1 percent surge year-on-year and over double the growth rate of the nominal gross domestic product, BOK data showed.