SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean investors poured record sums into exchange-traded funds last year, with both retail and foreign investors gravitating toward overseas equity benchmarks and high-growth thematic products, underscoring a broad shift in the country’s investment landscape. According to data released Sunday by financial information provider Yonhap Infomax, individual investors’ most heavily [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s richest business leaders saw a sharp surge in their stock wealth over the past year, lifted by a strong rally in domestic equities, with gains exceeding 35 trillion won ($26 billion) among the heads of the country’s largest conglomerates, according to a new analysis released Monday. A report [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign investors’ presence in South Korea’s stock market climbed to its highest level in nearly six years in December, buoyed by a sharp rally in equities and growing optimism about the country’s semiconductor industry. Foreign ownership reached 32.9 percent of total market capitalization, the highest since April 2020, after overseas [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean stocks climbed to a record close Friday, propelled by heavy buying in large semiconductor names as investors doubled down on bets that artificial intelligence–driven growth will continue to bolster the country’s export engine. The won weakened against the U.S. dollar. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index jumped [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The head of South Korea’s main bourse operator vowed Friday efforts to upgrade the country’s capital market by extending trading hours and strengthening crackdowns on unfair trading practices. Jeong Eun-bo, the chairman of the Korea Exchange (KRX), made the remarks at an event celebrating the first trading day of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A broader swath of South Korean companies will soon be required to file regulatory disclosures in English, a move aimed at opening the country’s capital markets further to foreign investors, even as a newly enacted pro-labor law is set to raise compliance risks for businesses. Beginning May 1, the Financial [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean investors switched to net sellers of U.S. stocks for the first time in around four months last week, data showed Tuesday, amid government measures to reshore capital into the local stock market. Local investors sold a net US$281.4 million of equities in the United States between Dec. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The total proceeds from initial public offerings (IPOs) in the South Korean stock market rose 14.9 percent in 2025 from a year earlier, backed by increased liquidity, data showed Monday. The proceeds from IPOs stood at 4.57 trillion won (US$3.19 billion) this year, up from last year’s 3.97 trillion [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The national pension fund has resumed strategic foreign exchange hedging operations as authorities stepped up efforts to stabilize the local currency, sources said Friday. The National Pension Service (NPS) restarted the program after extending both its currency swap agreement and the temporary strategic hedging scheme for another year, which [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean investors turned to familiar blue chips and high-flying U.S. technology stocks when gifting shares this year, with Samsung Electronics emerging as the most popular choice, according to data released by KB Securities. An analysis of KB Securities’ stock-gifting service, covering transactions through Dec. 22, showed that shares of [...]