South Korean stocks edged up on Monday, while won rose slightly and bond yields climbed.
At 01:17 GMT, the KOSPI was up 2.67 points or 0.11 per cent at 2,500.19.
The won was quoted at 1,061.9 per dollar on the onshore settlement platform, 0.08 per cent firmer than its previous close at 1,062.7, reports Reuters.
In offshore trading, the won was quoted at 1,060.5 per dollar, up 0.11 per cent from the previous day, while in one-year non-deliverable forwards it fetched 1,052.85 per dollar.
The KOSPI is up around 1.2 per cent so far this year, and down by 1.31 per cent in the previous 30 days.
The current price-to-earnings ratio is 12.10, the dividend yield is 1.28 per cent and the market capitalisation is 1,242.04 trillion won.
The trading volume during the session on the KOSPI index was 94,277,000 shares, and of the total traded issues of 880, the number of advancing shares was 303.
Foreigners were net buyers of 84,539 million won worth of shares.
The Korean 3-month Certificate of Deposit benchmark rate was quoted at 1.66 per cent, while the benchmark 3-year Korean treasury bond yielded 2.109 per cent.
