NPS posts record 27% return in H1

South Korea's National Pension Service posted a 27.22 percent investment return in the first half of the year, driven by a sharp rally in domestic stocks, the pension fund said Friday.

The return was well above the 18.82 percent return the NPS recorded for all of 2025, which in turn had marked its highest annual return since the fund was established in 1988.

The fund's assets stood at 1,866 trillion won ($1.35 trillion) as of end-June, up from 1,458 trillion won at the end of last year.

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