Korea International Investment Fund

Date	Title	Source
2008.10.12	IMF Should Do More to Curb Spread of Financial Crisis Karl Marx predicted 140 years ago, among other things, that Capitalism bore the seeds of its own destruction, which the unfettered pursuit of financial gain would eventually destroy capitalist economies...	The Korea Times
2008.06.23	Stupidity of Protectionism Many Americans like me are scratching their heads, wondering why millions of Koreans believe myths about how "Americans don't eat their own beef." It seems completely irrational. Well, many Mexicans are also scratching their heads, wondering why millions of Americans believe myths about how "Mexicans stole their jobs . . . .	The Korea Times
2008.05.01	Now, Samsung Electronics Can Trade at 1 million Won Samsung Electronics currently trades at a price-to-earnings (PE) ratio of 14. Sony, by contrast, trades at a PE ratio of 38. If investors valued Samsung the way they value Sony, its share price would rise to 1.9 million won.....	The Korea Times
2008.03.06	No Kimchi Eaters Allowed Everybody knows that a great deal of money follows the MSCI Developed Markets Index ― 2 or 3 trillion dollars. This ensures South Korea's benchmark stock price index, KOSPI, will jump at least 10 percent ― and perhaps a lot more ― when the country finally gets upgraded from an Emerging Market to a Developed Market. The question is: Why is this upgrade taking so long? . . . .	The Korea Times
2008.01.28	Start Your Bulldozer Thirty years ago, labor government mismanagement and over-regulation had plunged the UK into an era of industrial disputes, strikes, increasing unemployment, and collapsing public services.....	The Korea Times
2007.10.22	Anti-socialist bloodsuckers, you will be dealt a thousandfold retaliatory blow! New Pyongyang, October 22 (SKCNA): The DPRSK has self-reliant regulatory defence capability strong enough to beat back any formidable banking enemy at a single stroke and is demonstrating its might as an invincible economic power while energetically pushing forward the building of a great prosperous powerful socialist country, meeting all challenges of the imperialist..	OhMyNews
2007.08.31	Debt Crisis – Ten Years Later Ten years ago, Asian economies suffered a massive financial crisis. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) came in to bail out the mess, with Korea singled out as perhaps the worst economy, due to its uncontrolled borrowing....	The Korea Times
2007.06.13	Korea Faces Uphill Battle to Become Financial Hub For four years, we have been hearing about Korea’s financial hub plan, and a few months ago, Ministry of Finance and Economy finally published its ``Financial Hub Initiative in Korea,’’ setting forth its grand plan to transform Korea into a regional financial powerhouse, basically, a Hong Kong or Singapore for Northeast Asia...	The Korea Times
2007.04.24	End of Bumpy Road The title of my column last August was ``Korea-US FTA Deal Faces Bumpy Road.'' So, where are we with the various observations and predictions I made? ``A substantive free trade agreement between the United States and Korea is as likely as long-term peace in the Middle East.'' ....	The Korea Times
2007.04.15	Abe: Ahmadinejad of the Far East My country sacrificed hundreds of thousands of lives to Japanese aggression in WWII, so I was offended to see Junichiro Koizumi making his annual parades to the Yasukuni Shrine, which celebrates Japan’s war criminals...	The Korea Times
2007.03.14	Got Crushed When China Crashed? Remember ``Buy Korea to Save Korea’’? That was the hype that drove a record 13 trillion won, most of it from ordinary retail investors, into a massive equity fund pile-up eight years ago....	The Korea Times
2006.12.13	Korea's Coming Refugee Crisis Everybody’s talking about another sinister ``OPLAN’’ from the Bush military, this time ``CONPLAN 5029.’’ This latest plan, revealed last week, was devised in case of a catastrophic collapse of North Korea’s government and would involve a joint U.S.-ROK invasion of North Korea, as well as preparations for a North Korean refugees...	The Korea Times
2006.12.05	Crisis Forced Korea to Enter Real World There is always a lot of grumbling about ``backsliding’’ in Korean corporate governance - how the chaebols have re-asserted their economically destructive behavior patterns....	The Korea Times
2006.11.21	What, Me Worry About the Islamic Bomb? No one is going to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons, not the U.S., not China, not South Korea. The big fuss will fade away, just like it did with Pakistan eight years ago...	The Korea Times
2006.08.29	Korea-US FTA Deal Faces Bumpy Road A substantive free trade agreement (FTA) between the United States and South Korea is as likely as long-term peace in the Middle East....	The Korea Times
2006.07.25	Corporate Raiders - Korean Style Several years ago, a Korean company, LG Investment & Securities, bought a Polish company, Petro Bank, then sold it a few years later for a handsome 50 percent ...	The Korea Times
2006.04.25	Let Chaebol be Chaebol I know this will upset all my activist comrades, but I think the time has come for the Korean government to let Chaebol be Chaebol, to remove the 25 percent investment limit imposed on large business groups...	The Korea Times
2005.09.22	From Casino Chips to Shares of Ownership Like water transformed into wine at the wedding at Cana, common shares in Korea are being transformed from casino chips into shares of ownership.....	The Korea Times
2005.04.21	Audio: Road Map to $20,000 Per Capita GDP The administration of Roh, Moo-hyun has established a goal for Korea’s economy to reach the $20,000 per capita level, which would move the country even higher than it is now amongst the world’s leading economies. As its domestic economy rebounds and exports continue to show robust growth, Korea has a unique opportunity today to establish a new paradigm for prosperity in....	Korea Society Business Forum
2005.04.14	Will the KOSPI Hit a New Historical High? First, there was the eerie, impenetrable "double top." On April 18, 2002, the KOSPI closed at 937.61 – a new high not seen since the bubble burst two years earlier – and then retreated...	FinanceAsia Magazine
2005.04.09	Is the Financial Times Next? Last Fall, they targeted the Chosun Ilbo, Dong-a Ilbo and JoongAng Ilbo. …Is the Financial Times next?....	Money Today
2005.01.05	No wonder Koreans Hate Their Own Stock Market Last month, I complained about how the Brazilian and Canadian stock markets are 93% owned by Brazilians and Canadians, but Koreans seem to hate their own stock market, having created a situation where foreigners own 44% of it -- and way over 50% for some of the most valuable . . . .	Money Today
2004.12.09	Korean Ministers, Go Home Listen, I love chowing down on the free Prime Rib at Le Cirque restaurant inside the Palace Hotel as much as the next guy, but enough is enough! *(scroll down for english translation) . . .	Money Today
2004.10.04	MSCI Keeps Gate Closed on Korea For decades after World War II, Swiss banks greedily hoarded gold stolen by Nazi Germany in its racist deportations - unyielding until international shame forced them to act....	The Korea Times
2004.07.06	Why I Like Korean Equities Today, the Korean stock market is trading at a PE below 9 times, at the low end of its historical trading band. It is the cheapest market in Asia and the cheapest significant emerging market... . . . .	FinanceAsia Magazine
2003.12.22	Land that Inspired 1,000 Myths Upper Coryo is a mist-enshrouded, secret land, protected by a fortified wall that disappears from sight on one side, raging waters on the other three side.....	Maeil Business New
2003.10.28	Market Booster When you get right down to it, investors’ concerns, whether here or anywhere else the world, are pretty simple. We don’t pay attention to most political squabbling. .. . . . .	Maeil Business News
2003.10.15	Market Booster Did you know that college kids in France have been burning American flags for more than thirty years, and it has had little or no effect on the French stock market, or foreign investment into the French stock markett.....	Maeil Business News
2003.09.30	Market Booster Did you know that Korean individuals` equities exposure is 7% instead of 14% as in the US, and Korean pension funds` equities exposure is 4% instead of about 50% as in the US? Korea really should be creating an atmosphere of trust for its stock markets, and should have all government pension funds invest in them.. . . . .	Maeil Business News