S.Korea shares with exposure to N.Korea rally after Trump-Kim meeting

Good People Co

01/07/2019 01:20

** South Korea's shares with exposure to North Korea jump
after U.S. President Donald Trump met North Korean leader Kim
Jong Un on Sunday
    ** Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to set foot
in North Korea by meeting Kim in the Demilitarized Zone between
the two Koreas, where they agreed to resume stalled nuclear
talks  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL2N24100A
    ** Shares of Hyundai Rotem  064350.KS  and Hyundai Elevator
 017800.KS  add more than 6% each, while Ilshin Stone
 007110.KS  rallies more than 14%
    ** Cos which used to operate factories in the Kaesong
industrial park, just on the North Korean side of the heavily
fortified border, also soar, with Good People  033340.KQ  rising
more than 11% 
    ** The broader KOSPI market  .KS11  was trading up 0.6%

 ((hayoung.choi.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net))