▲ Data submitted by the Credit Counseling and Recovery Service to the office of People Power Party lawmaker Lee Jong-wook on the 5th showed that 27,864 people reapplied for debt restructuring between January and August this year. With the number of people who applied again after having debts forgiven in the past approaching 30,000, the figure already amounts to 82.6% of last year’s total of 33,718 reapplicants. The prolonged slump in the livelihoods of low- and middle-income households is…

