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Kiwoom Securities is a South Korean brokerage and securities firm offering trading, investment banking and equity research services.
Korea's five largest banks added 67.1 trillion won of time deposits since end-June while brokerage cash accounts lost 24.2 trillion won. The outflow equals about 36% of the gain, so July and August policy rate increases are a second explanation for the inflow.
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Hyundai Motor's market value has fallen about 89.8 trillion won since June 1 as the share price lost 58.2%, en.sedaily.com reported. Seventh place on the KOSPI now rests on a lead of about 7.4 trillion won over KB Financial.
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Hanwha Semitech earned 2.5 billion won of operating profit in the first half, short of its 4.2 billion won interest expense. Non-chip lines are still 82% of sales, so further parent funding turns on orders for hybrid bonders and deposition tools.
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Korean ramyeon exports reached a record $935.4 million in the first half, up 27.9 percent, according to the Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corporation. At that pace the year ends near $1.94 billion, so $2 billion needs a faster second half.
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China will score dental implants on quality as well as price in its second national tender, after round one more than halved procedure costs. Korean makers expect gains for their mid-priced implants after the first round left Osstem and Dentium with about a quarter less China revenue last year.
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SK hynix accounted for 12 trillion won of the 20.3 trillion won that foreign investors sold net on the KOSPI between Sept. 1 and Oct. 2. With Samsung Electronics included, two memory makers carried about 85% of it, leaving little foreign selling for the rest of the market.
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The Assassins logged 2,045,495 admissions in 11 days and has led Korean-film presales for 20 straight days, according to Korean Film Council data. The conservative campaign against it has turned to star Yoo Hae-jin's advertisers, where protest can cost money.
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Samsung Electronics has finished buying back 53.8 million of its own shares, 100.96% of the plan it began in August. Its stock now goes into next week's preliminary third-quarter results with no company purchases in the market.
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The board set the ratio on book net assets and a December 17 shareholder vote. Holders end up owning two separately priced Korean tech balance sheets instead of one.
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Shinhan Securities now expects Mirae Asset Securities to earn 16.1 billion won in the third quarter against a 181.5 billion won consensus, and it has taken the stock's price target down 26%, to 37,000 won.
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Both brokerages raised their price targets on the same fourth-quarter start-up of LFP lines replacing high-nickel capacity, though NH kept a hold rating with the stock at 162 times projected 2028 earnings.
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Kiwoom Securities says the FDA has suspended new enrollment in one of two registrational trials of the epilepsy drug SK Biopharmaceuticals agreed to license from Biohaven last month, and the closing payment is still outstanding.
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Unpaid principal at Korea's ten largest brokerages rose 5.1 times to 37.79575 billion won over seven months, a sum equal to less than a tenth of a percent of the record 38.6328 trillion won margin book behind it.
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Thirteen of twenty forecasters surveyed by Seoul Economic Daily see a quarter-point on the 27th. The dissenters are arguing about the month, not the direction.
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Ten firms booked 10.26 trillion won of first-half net profit and hired accordingly. The same rate cycle that funds the trading desks is repricing household debt.
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Hugel and PharmaResearch posted record numbers on exports, and brokerages marked up targets within days. The upside now has to come from execution, not re-rating.
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