S.Korean banks' lending to households keeps falling for 4 months

SEOUL, April 13 (Xinhua) -- South Korean banks' lending to households kept falling for four straight months owing to higher borrowing cost, central bank data showed Wednesday.

Debts, owed by households to banks, amounted to 1,059 trillion won (863.8 billion U.S. dollars) at the end of March, down 1 trillion won from a month earlier, according to the Bank of Korea (BOK).

The figure continued to slide for t