²  President Park toured China, Myanmar and Australia from Nov 9-to-17, whilst attending summits-- APEC, ASEAN, East Asia summit and the G20 summit.

²  SKorea signed a historical bilateral FTA with China.

²  Korea had signed 12 FTAs with its key trade partners, covering almost 73% of the world’s markets.

²  Ministers of SKorea and China discussed concrete plans to reduce fine dust emissions from China.

²  SKorea plans to send its first batch of 10 medical personnel to Ebola-hit Sierra Leone in Dec.

²  SKorea will become an aged society by 2017, becoming a so-called super-aged society in 2026.

²  The UN urges the Security Council to refer NK’s harsh human rights situation to ICC.

²  Korea’s national budget for 2015 was provisionally set at KW375.5 tril for 2015.

²  The nation’s economy is likely to grow 3.7% for the year.

²  Moody’s Investors retained its sovereign credit rating on SKorea at ‘Aa3’ (‘stable’).

²  SKorea's total trade volume will reach $1.1 tril this year with exports growing 2% on-year to $570 bil.

²  SEC’s market share in the IT mobile sector dipped 1% point to 23.9% from July-to-Sept.

²  The share of SEC and SK Hynix in the global DRAM market reached 69.7% in the third quarter.

²  The Korean government ordered Asiana Airlines to suspend its services to SF for 45 days.

²  Hanwha bought in Samsung Techwin and Samsung Thales at KW2 tril ($1.8 bil).

²  Car output in SKorea is expected to rise slightly to 4.51 mil units in 2015.

²  Import car sales are likely to near 195,000 units at end-2014, taking 14% of all new car sales in Korea.

²  Launch of the Shanghai-Hong Kong stock connect had little impact on the Korean bourse.

²  KWon continues to slide following JYen weakening.

²  Global NB order intakes aggregate to 1,498 vessels (94.80 mil dwt, 32.90 mil cgt, $83.2 bil) upto Oct.

²  Korea secured over 80% of 52 VLGCs vessels newly ordered worldwide in this year.

²  KIET forecast SKorea’s shipbuilding and semiconductor industries will lead SKorea's economy in 2015.

²  Unionized workers at HHI staged the first partial strike for the first time since 1994.

²  SHI’s planned merger with Samsung Engineering fell through due to the high buyback costs.

²  Pan Ocean will be put up for auction in Dec at between KW800 bil and KW1 tril ($757 mil to $946 mil).

²  Hyundai Glovis took over Adampol, a Polish car transport logistics firm, at EU70 mil ($87.6 mil).