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The Republic of Korea occupies the southern portion of the Korean peninsula, with Japan to the east and mainland China to the west. The main commercial centres are Seoul, Inchon (Seoul’s port city) and Pusan (the southern port city). The Koreans themselves are a homogeneous, ethnically mongoloid people with their own traditional language and alphabet, Hangul.
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Jae Yoon Kim (ed.), Financial System of Korea (Seoul: Bank of Korea, 1978) provides additional details on the Bank of Korea’s establishment and operations.
M. T. Skully, Merchant Banking in the Far East 2nd edn. (London: Financial Times Business Publishing, 1980) ch. 9, provides a detailed discussion of these institutions’ operations in Korea.
Kim Tae-Cheon (ed.), Securities Market in Korea (Seoul: Korea Securities Dealers Association, 1977) provides more details on the Stock Exchange’s operations and the securities industry in general.
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Nam, SW., Park, YC. (1982). Financial Institutions and Markets in South Korea. In: Skully, M.T. (eds) Financial Institutions and Markets in the Far East. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04121-3_4
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