SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid fanfare over a stock bull run, South Korea’s financial regulator is in a tight spot over whether to allow short selling as scheduled in March as more retail investors have demanded an outright ban on the trading tactics for a level playing field with institutional investors. With the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean retail investors snapped up a net 25.8 trillion won (US$23 billion) worth of local stocks in January alone, data showed Sunday, in the latest sign of their relentless buying spree. Individual investors bought a net 22.3 trillion won worth of stocks in the main market and a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s national pension fund earned nearly 58 trillion won (US$52.6 billion) from stock investments in 2020 thanks to the bullish stock market, data showed Wednesday. As of Friday, the National Pension Service (NPS) held 181.3 trillion won worth of shares in 275 companies, of which it owns 5 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Several foreign investment banks (IBs) have revised up their forecasts for South Korea’s 2021 economic growth following the economy’s relatively good performance last year, a report showed Wednesday. Out of six foreign IBs and one research institute that published reports on Asia’s fourth-largest economy Tuesday, three upgraded their growth [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — It will be another busy year for initial public offerings in South Korea as a slew of companies are rushing to debut on the local stock market amid a stock rally and strong appetite from retail investors, analysts said Tuesday. Companies ranging from bio, battery makers, fintech to games [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean retail investors’ holdings of shares in electric vehicle leader Tesla Motors Inc. soared nearly 32 percent this year to cross the US$10 billion mark, data showed Monday. Local individual investors owned $10.33 billion worth of Tesla shares as of Friday, up 31.9 percent from the end of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s finance ministry has increasingly found itself in hot water over growing calls to dig deeper into state coffers in response to the pandemic-caused economic slump, as it is wary of the country’s ballooning debt. A row over the finance ministry’s fiscal role reignited this week after Prime [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Floor-to-floor apartment noise has been a long-standing social problem in South Korea, and it is worsening as more people are spending longer hours at home. The Korea Environment Corporation reported 895 cases of complaints related to apartment noise last year, up by approximately 80 percent since 2019 (507 cases). [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The sense of crisis felt by South Korea’s general insurance companies is growing as internet giant Kakao Corp. is pushing to establish the nation’s third digital general insurance company. Against this backdrop, existing insurance companies are accelerating efforts to speed up their digitalization. Hanwha General Insurance Co. introduced the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean retail investors have emerged as deep pockets in the stock market, pouring in more than 100 trillion won (US$90.6 billion) since early last year, data showed Sunday. Individual investors net bought a combined 102.2 trillion won in local and overseas stocks from Jan. 2, 2019, to Friday, [...]