{"id":495797,"date":"2026-06-26T01:33:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T01:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/495797\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T01:33:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T01:33:34","slug":"s-koreas-financial-assets-in-us-hit-fresh-all-time-high-in-2025-bok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/495797\/","title":{"rendered":"S. Korea&#8217;s financial assets in US hit fresh all-time high in 2025: BOK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/43752c9e-fbba-4c76-a89f-03e0f600a42d.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1280; width: 100%\" alt=\"A trader works on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, June 24(local time). Reuters-Yonhap\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A trader works on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, June 24(local time). Reuters-Yonhap<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">South Korea&#8217;s financial assets in the United States reached a fresh record high last year on increased investment in the U.S. stock market amid a rally on Wall Street, a central bank report showed Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The outstanding value of financial assets in the U.S. held by South Korean individuals and companies reached $1.15 trillion at the end of last year, up $204.2 billion from a year before, according to the report by the Bank of Korea (BOK).<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The reading topped the $1 trillion mark for the first time and has broken yearly records for the third consecutive year since 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The amount also accounted for the largest share of overall overseas financial assets at 47.1 percent, according to the BOK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The BOK said the record financial assets in the U.S. came as South Korean individuals sharply increased their investment in the U.S. stock market amid a bullish run on Wall Street last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Koreans&#8217; investments in U.S stocks totaled $802.8 billion, up from the previous high of $178.6 billion reported a year ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Last year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 13 percent and the Nasdaq composite jumped 20.4 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A trader works on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, June&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-495797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}