The value of South Korea's listed shares owned by foreign investors has climbed more than 10 percent this year as they loaded up on large caps, data showed Tuesday.Offshore investors held 464.1 trillion won worth of shares traded on the main bourse and secondary KOSDAQ market as of last Wednesday, up 10.3 percent from end-2015 and taking up 30.56 percent of the total market capitalization, according to the data by the Korea Exchange.The percentage represents a 1.42 percentage point increase from

Republican-affiliated U.S. experts on Asia plan to issue a joint letter expressing serious concern about Donald Trump's foreign policy, one of the experts said Monday.The letter will be the latest in a series of statements that former Republican administration officials and national security and foreign policy experts have adopted in opposition to the foreign policy views of the Republican presidential nominee."I signed a letter last week of senior national security officials declaring that Mr.

The U.S. Army chief of staff plans to visit South Korea to receive updates on the plan to deploy the U.S. THAAD missile defense system to the Asian ally, the Army said Monday.South Korea will be the second leg of Gen. Mark Milley's Aug. 15-23 trip, which will also take him to China, Japan and Hawaii, the Army said in a statement without providing the exact dates for each stop.In South Korea, Milley will visit U.S. Army troops and meet with Korean military leaders, the statement said."While there

A South Korean film about the Korean War ranked 27th at the U.S. box office after the first two days of its release, data showed."Operation Chromite," a story about the 1950 landing operation led by U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, grossed $189,945 until Saturday since it was released in 114 theaters on Friday, according to data from box office data firm Rentrak.Until Friday, the film had been shown only at the CGV LA theater since Aug. 5. Combined with the sales at the theater, the movie earned a t