Korea's latest bombshell: investors face withholding tax blow

The Seoul government risks doing what even Kim Jong-un's missile tests can't manage: scaring foreign investors off its blossoming markets.
January 11, 2018

International investors who've put money into South Korea in recent years could be forgiven for feeling pretty smug. After all, as of December 29 the MSCI Korea Index had delivered an impressive 12.53% annualised return since December 29, 2000.

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