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4 stories tagged “bonds”, each from official Korean data with its source and timestamp.
Six Korean retail bonds showed yields between −424 percent and +35 percent in one day's data
Among 350 bonds in KRX's general and small-lot bond markets on September 17, six posted yields no real bond earns — a byproduct of trades as small as 10,000 won face value setting the day's quoted price.
Korea lists bonds on three boards. Everyone quotes one of them
Government paper trades on a board of 8 to 12 listings. Beside it sit 270 to 346 general listings and a near-fixed 40 small-lot listings retail buyers use. Over 22 sessions the gap ran 0.41 to 0.95 points.
Six bonds were 90% of a day's Korean bond trading
Korea's listed bond market has a price on hundreds of issues but trades almost none of them. On 2026-08-21, six bonds were 90% of all trading value, and government benchmarks were 95%. It held that way every day we measured. Not advice.
Korea's provinces all borrow at the same price — the gaps are empty order books
Seventeen regional governments issue near-identical bonds. In the vintages that actually trade, the widest gap between any two provinces is 3.2 basis points — narrower than the day-to-day swing inside a single province's own bond.