Sangmi Cha

South Korea will temporarily halt new listings of single-stock leveraged exchange traded products to curb market volatility after a surge in popularity of funds tied to Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc.

Clinics across South Korea are injecting treatments made from donated cadaver skin into patients seeking a more youthful look.

South Korea’s deep-pocketed retail investors are flocking to a leveraged instrument that has inflicted severe losses in the past, adding to concerns about abrupt unwinding of wagers as the stock market gyrates.

(Bloomberg) -- South Korea's risk-loving retail investors are flocking to a leveraged instrument that has inflicted severe losses in the past, adding to concerns about abrupt unwinding of wagers as the stock market gyrates.

South Korean stocks suffered a series of trading suspension on Tuesday, as a selloff in chipmakers spread across sectors.

South Korean authorities’ emergency confab Wednesday evening underscored their urgency to rein in the stock market’s dizzying volatility and recover from July’s record 33% slide.

(Bloomberg) -- South Korean authorities' emergency confab Wednesday evening underscored their urgency to rein in the stock market's dizzying volatility and recover from July's record 33% slide.

Investing in South Korea’s stock market has yielded huge returns this year, but it’s been a wild ride. Volatility on the benchmark Kospi Index has topped 60%, almost double that of Japan’s Nikkei 225. It’s even put the notoriously unstable cryptocurrency Bitcoin in the shade.

Analyst opinions are more polarized on CXMT Corp. than any other stock in Asia, delineating the key arguments driving volatility in the memory-chip stock trade.

Shares of SK Hynix Inc. advanced, lifted by an overnight rally in US chipmakers and speculation that the Korean firm may soon unveil buybacks and other details of a broader shareholder return plan.