The Asian Development Bank has raised its South Korea growth forecast for 2025 to 0.9% from 0.8%, citing stronger domestic consumption following government stimulus and easing export uncertainty after a tariff agreement with the United States, the finance ministry said. The lender also lifted its 2026 growth outlook by 0.1 percentage point to 1.7%, broadly in line with projections from the OECD and the Bank of Korea. Officials said the upgrade reflected resilient semiconducto