SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign investors scooped up Korean stocks in April for the sixth consecutive month on the back of hopes for a recovery in the chipmaking sector, central bank data showed Friday. Offshore investors bought a net US$1.92 billion worth of local stocks last month, following $3.84 billion worth of purchases [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A list of hundreds of foreigners, including American author and activist Helen Keller, presumed to have purchased Korean cultural assets from an antique shop in Seoul from the 1930s to the 1950s was unveiled Monday. The customer list is expected to be of great help to future research of [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 7 in 10 foreign buyers think that South Korea’s national brand is having a positive impact on their purchases of products from Asia’s fourth-largest economy, a poll showed Thursday. According to the survey of 213 foreign buyers, 72.9 percent of the respondents replied that their imports of South [...]