Listed Firms’ Cash Dividends Up 60 pct in 2020

SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s major listed firms’ cash dividends shot up 60 percent in 2020 from a year earlier, led mostly by top market cap Samsung Electronics, data showed Sunday. The combined amount of dividends handed out by 124 listed firms surveyed in 2020 reached 30.2 trillion won (US$26.8 billion), rising [...]