Рыночные обозреватели отмечают, что основным локомотивом экономики Страны утренней свежести (так издревле Корею называли японцы) остаётся корпорация Samsung Electronics, которая уже захватила более 20% экономического оборота республики. Стоимость акций техногиганта превысила 2.270 долларов США за штуку, что на 91% больше, чем они стоили годом ранее.
Samsung shares set a new record of value
Korea's benchmark KOSPI closed at another record high on Thursday.
At the closing bell, the benchmark KOSPI was up POINT-49 percent finishing the day at 2-thousand-4-hundred-41-point-84, while the tech-heavy KOSDAQ also rose point-74 percent to end the day at 6-hundred-76-point-51.
After initially see-sawing between gains and losses, Korea's benchmark exchange gained ground during the afternoon trading to cross the 2-thousand-4-hundred-40 line, as foreign investors and institutions switched to become net buyers.
This is the sixth straight session that the KOSPI has HIT a record high.
One of the market's main stocks, Samsung Electronics, also hit another record high Thursday, rising point-91 percent to 2-million 5-hundred 60-thousand won, or around 2-thousand- 2-hundred-seventy U.S. dollars.
