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Bank of Korea

Bank of Korea Base Rate

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3.00%

+0.25 pp last change (26 Aug 2026)

As of 17 Sep 2026 | Daily (policy rate; changes on Monetary Policy Board decision days)

Mean
2.90%
Median
3.00%
Min
0.50% 28 May 2020
Max
5.25% 5 Oct 2000
DateRate
17 Sep 20263.00
31 Aug 20263.00
31 Jul 20262.75
30 Jun 20262.50
31 May 20262.50
30 Apr 20262.50
31 Mar 20262.50
28 Feb 20262.50
31 Jan 20262.50
31 Dec 20252.50
30 Nov 20252.50
31 Oct 20252.50
30 Sep 20252.50
31 Aug 20252.50
31 Jul 20252.50
30 Jun 20252.50
31 May 20252.50
30 Apr 20252.75
31 Mar 20252.75
28 Feb 20252.75
31 Jan 20253.00
31 Dec 20243.00
30 Nov 20243.00
31 Oct 20243.25

About the Base Rate

Bank of Korea Base Rate from the official change list on bok.or.kr. Current: 3.00% on 17 Sep 2026. Chart is stepped at Monetary Policy Board decisions.

From 6 May 1999 to 17 Sep 2026 (9,997 observations): mean 2.90%, median 3.00%; low 0.50% (28 May 2020), high 5.25% (5 Oct 2000). Not a mortgage or deposit 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 Brazil desk leads with the Selic target, read from the BIS central bank policy rate series for Brazil, then US, Mexico and ECB rates. The Selic target is set by the Banco Central do Brasil's Copom and is the anchor for the overnight interbank rate; the BIS series is the overnight Selic target from 1999, with earlier stretches splicing other central-bank instruments. It is drawn as daily steps because it changes only at Copom decisions.

All desks show the same series in a different order, so the figures do not change when you switch. Values are republished with attribution to the BIS; this site is not an official BIS publication. The build ingests no Brazilian retail lending rate, so that page is absent rather than estimated. Nothing here is financial advice, and readings may lag their source.