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Foreign profit-taking on stocks 30%, Korea-US rate gap and strong dollar 28%, Middle East geopolitical uncertainty 18%, structural pressure from overseas stock investment 12%, money supply and fiscal pressure...
Right now your account is being shaken by war news. To avoid that, you need to read Trump's timeline first. Do stocks rise when a war ends? Trump's second half...
Bitcoin started out as an asset no government could control. No central bank can issue it at will, no single country can take over the network, and existing...
News that Samsung Electronics' management and union reached a tentative deal on a bonus of about 12% just before a general strike looks like ordinary labor news. But the essence of this event is not a pay raise...
Crypto bills are pouring out in the U.S. Their names are similar and their contents seem to overlap, which is confusing, but each bill is meant to solve a different problem...
On April 1, 2026, Korean government bonds were officially added to the World Government Bond Index (WGBI). It came after four attempts and nearly 15 years of preparation. The government expects this inclusion to bring up to...
When war breaks out and oil prices rise, a picture naturally forms in your head: fossil fuels are shaken, so alternatives like nuclear, solar, wind, EVs and batteries will immediately come to the fore...
The domestic market return account, designed to bring overseas investment money back to Korea, officially launched on March 23, 2026. It comes with generous capital gains tax breaks, but by the same token...
A battery supercycle is about to begin, driven by the global energy security crisis and exploding AI power demand. 1. Middle East war and oil shock: accelerating the shift away from fossil fuels...
"The machines stopped, but people are still alive"... What the arrival of KOSDAQ active ETFs means. Can active strategies ease the KOSDAQ 150 concentration created by the "mechanical trading" of passive ETFs...
The record sales at Samsung Electronics and SK hynix that have been heating up the stock market lately do more than excite investors; for the national economy as a whole...
Chinese banks have reportedly been told to sell U.S. Treasuries. Is this simple risk management, or the opening shot signaling the end of dollar dominance? If China sells Treasuries, prices...
With the Semiconductor Special Act passed by the National Assembly, a new wind is blowing through Korea's chip industry. This law covers making the "semiconductors"* that go into every electronic device, from smartphones to AI...
One of the keywords mentioned most often in the U.S. crypto market lately is "delayed legislation." The market talked as if the U.S. would soon bring crypto into the regulated system, but...
The KOSDAQ breaking 1,000 after the KOSPI hit 5,000 is not just a joint rally; it is closer to the start of a new experiment: "a growth-stock index nurtured by policy." 1. KOSDAQ...
As the KOSPI breaks above 4,800 to set new highs, the KOSDAQ is stuck around 900, and investor frustration is growing. But as the Lee Jae-myung government's pledge to boost the KOSDAQ gets fully underway...
The official reasons the Chinese government tightly controls the crypto market are financial system stability and crime prevention. But behind that lies defending the value of the yuan and the state's...
The U.S. withdrawal from UN-related bodies and the Venezuela, Cuba and Greenland issues are better seen not as "simple diplomatic events" but as a strategy to cut America's external risks and costs and reallocate resource and security interests...
Dividend stocks are drawing attention again in the Korean stock market. More companies, even ones that paid almost no dividends in the past, are considering or actually raising dividends....
Look at the Korean stock market these days and unfamiliar terms pop up all at once: share buyback cancellations, Commercial Act amendments, separate taxation of dividend income. Each looks complicated on its own, but these...
The final crossroads left by a "two-year delay." At the end of 2024, the National Assembly agreed to push crypto taxation back two more years, to 2027. But now that 2026 has begun,...
The key variable in the 2026 crypto market is "regulation," not "supply and demand." The factors moving prices are no longer vague. How the U.S. treats which assets, and which products and...
1. What was the RIA account created to prevent? The RIA account is a temporary tax-saving tool introduced to steer money from selling overseas stocks into long-term domestic investment. The key...
"There are two stock exchanges? So do you sell Samsung Electronics separately on each?" "Isn't it run by the government?" Recently, the Korea Exchange (KRX) announced it would extend trading hours to 12 hours...
