Korea Exchange thriving despite being just next door to a nuclear nightmare

Sydney

IF YOU'RE a South Korean stock investor, how do you price in nuclear Armageddon exactly?

That's not just a thought experiment for investors with exposure to South Korean companies and financial assets. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's regime has conducted rapid-fire ballistic missile and nuclear-wea-pons tests in an escalating standoff with the United States. In any war game scenario imaginable, Seoul would sustain massive loss of life and damage would be a full-on, military conflict breakout on the Korean Peninsula.