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Retail investors pay huge chunk of stock transaction tax in 2023

Retail investors paid 4.57 trillion won (US$3.29 billion) in stock transaction tax last year, accounting for 75 percent of the total, industry data showed Saturday.

The government collected around 6.06 trillion won in stock transaction tax last year…

PM says S. Korea will not tolerate any N.K. provocations

South Korea will not tolerate any provocations from North Korea, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said Saturday, as the country marked the 71st anniversary of the signing of the armistice that ended the 1950-53 Korean War.

Han made the remark during a ce…