Key Highlights
- ** Chipmaker Samsung Electronics rose 5.21% to an all-time high and peer SK Hynix gained 1.48%, also notching a record peak, after the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index jumped 4% on Friday.
- ** South Korean President Lee Jae Myung began a state visit to China on Sunday and is scheduled to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday, just two months after their first meeting in South Korea.
- ** Shares of K-Pop agencies, film producers, beauty makers, game developers and travel agencies fell after South Korea's presidential chief of staff said it would take some time to see Beijing lift an unofficial ban on Korean culture.
- ** South Korea's finance ministry said that authorities would closely monitor financial markets, though the market impact of U. S.
- strikes on Venezuela and recent missile launches by North Korea was seen limited.
