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The Korea Composite Stock Price Index or KOSPI (Korean: 한국종합주가지수) is the index of all common stocks traded on the Stock Market Division—previously, Korea Stock Exchange—of the Korea Exchange. It is the representative stock market index of South Korea, analogous to the S&P 500 in the United States.
De Facto Classification of Exchange Rate Arrangements, as of April 30, 2021, and Monetary Policy Frameworks [2]; Exchange rate arrangement (Number of countries) Exchange rate anchor
Korea Exchange; 한국거래소: Type: Stock exchange: Location: Busan & Seoul, South Korea: Coordinates (Busan): Founded: 1956; 69 years ago (): Key people: Sohn Byung-doo (Chairman & CEO): Currency: South Korean won: No. of listings: 2,445 (as of May 2021) [1]: Market cap: ₩2,604 trillion KRW ($2.3 trillion USD) [2]: Indices: KOSPI KOSPI 200 KOSDAQ: Website: www.krx.co.kr global.krx.co.kr ...
The first South Korean won was subdivided into 100 jeon. The South Korean won initially had a fixed exchange rate to the U.S. dollar at a rate of 15 won to 1 dollar. A series of devaluations followed, the later ones, in part, due to the Korean War (1950–53). The pegs were:
In Microsoft Windows code page 949, the position 0x5C is used for the won sign (in Code page 850 (latin script), this codepoint is used for backslash). [1]In Korean versions of Windows, many fonts (including system fonts) display the backslash character as the won sign.
The purpose of this template is to automatically convert and format Korean won applying adjustment for inflation where appropriate. Rates of exchange and inflation must be manually copied by editors in the supporting templates therefore this template's output does not necessarily reflect the present exchange rates or price indices but, rather, reflects the rates and indices at the time of the ...
A currency pair is the quotation of the relative value of a currency unit against the unit of another currency in the foreign exchange market.The currency that is used as the reference is called the counter currency, quote currency, or currency [1] and the currency that is quoted in relation is called the base currency or transaction currency.
The Bank of Korea (BOK; Korean: 한국은행; Hanja: 韓國銀行; RR: Hanguk Eunhaeng) is the central bank of South Korea and issuer of South Korean won. It was established on 12 June 1950 in Seoul, South Korea. The bank's primary purpose is price stability. For that, the bank targets inflation. The 2016–18 target is consumer price inflation ...