Cashing out a yeongeum-jeochuk or IRP account triggers a flat 16.5% other-income tax on deducted principal plus gains. For higher earners that means paying back more than they ever received.
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A bond ETF with a duration of 17 years loses roughly 17% when rates rise 1%p. Korea's 30-year government bond yield rose 1.459%p this year — and the ETFs tracking it fell 25.39% on average. Here is the arithmetic behind that.
Korea taxes overseas stock gains above 2.5 million won at 22%. Because the base is won-converted at settlement-date rates, an account down 5% in dollars can still owe 1.9 million won.
Daily forced liquidations jumped 4.4 times after the KOSPI crash. The price drop that breaks the 140% maintenance ratio can be derived from your loan share, and the amount sold is always larger than the shortfall.
Neither Korea's market stabilization fund nor a full short-selling ban has an automatic trigger. Counting the four past bans, 20.9% of the days since October 2008 were spent under one.
Interpreting foreign net-buying data requires knowing which industry events captured global capital. In July, three themes hit the Korean market at once: defense orders, HBM competition, and energy supply-chain instability. This piece examines each and the conditions that break the framework.
SK Hynix fell from 2,959,000 won on June 22 to 1,291,000 won on July 30 — a 56% drop in the same month it posted a record quarterly operating profit of 60 trillion won. Three numbers explain the gap.
US tariffs and simultaneous Hormuz/Red Sea instability are shaking automakers' cost structures. Even before the numbers arrive, this piece assembles the judgment framework investors should use when analyzing Hyundai Motor.
With zinc/lead treatment charges (TC) near historic lows, reading Korea Zinc purely through smelting margins is half the story. This piece decomposes the cyclical trough and the option value of battery materials, hydrogen, and recycling ventures into separate analytical layers.