HANOI/SEOUL (Reuters): South Korea and Vietnam agreed on Friday (June 23) to boost security cooperation, citing North Korea's nuclear threat, and committed to increasing bilateral trade and investment despite a slump this year and Vietnam's planned tax hikes on large firms.
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The Korean debt market is showing signs of a recovery with investor appetite for corporate bonds rising during the first half of this year. Bonds issued by top-rated companies and even by some businesses with lower credit ratings succeeded in attracting hundreds of billions of won in investments during the first half of this year.
More than half of major listed firms in Korea saw their financial soundness worsen in 2022 amid high global interest rates and inflation, data showed Monday.