Korea’s ‘New Japan Trade,’ One Year In: Did Copying Japan Actually Work?
Global funds call Korea “the new Japan trade.” One year into the Value-Up push, buyback cancellations hit records and the law now forces them — yet…
Investing in Korea
Korea Cut Dividend Taxes. Foreigners’ Rate Didn’t.
Korea’s 2026 dividend tax cut is real — but it’s a resident-only, three-year break. Foreign investors’ withholding rate (22%, or 15% by treaty) didn’t…
Korea Quietly Rewrote Its Corporate Law. Wall Street Calls It the ‘New Japan Trade.’
Korea’s Value-Up program is a national attempt to end the chronic “Korea discount.” Unlike past reforms, this one became law — and the policy line has stayed consistent across a change of government. Here’s what actually changed, who wins, and where the skeptics have a point.
I Bought Samsung at 53,000 Won. Two Years Later It Was Under 50,000.
A Korean retail investor’s true story of holding Samsung through a two-year slump — and the HBM truth the English headlines missed.