Bank of Korea Base Rate

Source: Bank of Korea base rate change list (public data). Licence: Bank of Korea public data policy: designated public data may be reused freely with attribution (terms). Files: data/raw/bok-base-rate-list.html.

Reading this series

The Base Rate is the Bank of Korea's policy interest rate, set by its Monetary Policy Board. This page reads the Bank's published base-rate change list and shows the rate as a daily step series from May 1999, when the current Base Rate framework began. Because the Board changes it only at policy meetings, the line is flat between decisions and jumps on announcement dates; the chart is drawn accordingly. The Base Rate is the policy anchor for Korean money-market rates, not a retail lending or deposit rate.

Read the headline with its as-of date, then the "versus the previous reading" line. Where the Board has held the rate, the page surfaces the date of the last actual change instead of a run of zero values. Mean, median, low and high are arithmetic summaries of the daily observations in this build; a long hold at one level pulls them toward it. Chart and Table show one series two ways, range buttons filter the drawn window, and Explore loads zoom and pan on request.

About this desk

The Australia desk leads with the RBA's cash rate target, then New Zealand's OCR and the US federal funds rate, with the rest of the build's series after them. The cash rate is the RBA board's policy target for the overnight money market, published in the F1 daily and F1.1 monthly tables; the page uses the daily target for the headline and the monthly history for the long chart. Because it changes only at board meetings, the series is drawn as steps.

All desks show the same official series, reordered toward one economy; the figures do not change with the desk. Values are republished from official files without alteration. The build publishes no Australian mortgage or deposit rate, because no official series for those is ingested — the desk omits them rather than estimating. This is not financial advice, and readings may lag their source.