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Sun, September 22, 2019 | 21:13

Korea’s weak currency strategy

The value of the Korean won continues to fall and is soon likely to breach the threshold of 1,200 to the U.S. dollar. Hail to the almighty weak won.

2012-06-06 16:37

Tackling problems in property market

While the property markets in Hong Kong and Singapore are reaching eye-watering heights, Seoul has the opposite problem: housing prices have stagnated over the last two years, according to Kookmin Bank’s Seoul Price Index.

2012-05-23 17:06

In 2007, Paul McCulley, then a managing director at PIMCO, a large U.S. investment firm, coined the term “shadow banking” in a speech at the famed annual U.S. Federal Reserve summer symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyo. He defined shadow banking as the “whole alphabet soup of levered-up non-bank investment conduits, vehicles and structures.” In other words, financial institutions and products that fell mainly outside normal regulatory supervision by central bankers and other government authorities.

2012-05-09 16:47

North Korea‘s choice

There seems to be a general consensus that North Korea’s new “First Secretary” Kim Jong-un utterly botched his first big test of leadership by going ahead with the launch of a new rocket despite international condemnation, only to see the missile disintegrate less than two minutes into its flight.

2012-04-25 16:57

Smooth path for Korean economy

A veteran Hong Kong-based regional economist I know recently made his annual research trip to Korea and declared that he now found the country to be “boring.” He wasn’t referring to the cultural scene or the nightlife, which he continues to enjoy. Rather it is the economic sphere that lacks excitement.

2012-04-02 16:53

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