The KOSPI market has continued a steep correction phase this month.

Mirae Asset Securities has been named the World’s Most Innovative Private Bank at the Best Private Bank Awards 2026, hosted by the U.S.-based financial magazine, Global Finance.

Lee Chan-jin, Financial Supervisory Service Governor, directly criticized the National Pension Service’s investment in MBK as inappropriate during the National Assembly’s Political Affairs Committee State Audit.

KB Securities and Kiwoom Securities recorded the lowest proportion of IT security investment relative to overall IT spending among Korea’s top 10 brokerages over the past two years, according to industry data.

South Korea recorded a current account surplus of $7.18 billion in February, marking the third-longest streak of monthly surpluses since the 2000s.

Import prices in South Korea recorded their sharpest drop in 18 months, largely due to a nearly 6% fall in international oil prices.

As of the end of May, South Korea’s foreign exchange reserves stood at 404.6 billion dollars (approximately 548.678 trillion KRW), marking a decrease of 70 million dollars (around 94.955 billion KRW) from the previous month.

Five days before the early presidential election, the Bank of Korea’s Monetary Policy Committee(MPC) cut the base rate by 0.25%p.

According to the Bank of Korea's "Financial Market Trends for April 2025," corporate loans from banks surged by 14.4 trillion won last month.

South Korea's foreign exchange reserves have fallen by nearly $5 billion in a month.