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 <li>Samsung Card is a dominant player in the mature South Korean credit card market, consistently vying for the top market share with Shinhan Card. Its primary competitive advantages are the powerful Samsung brand recognition and synergies within the broader Samsung Group.</li>
 <li>The company exhibits an attractive valuation profile, with a low Price-to-Book ratio compared to regional peers, and offers a high and stable dividend yield, making it appealing for value and income-oriented investors.</li>
 <li>Future growth is contingent on navigating intense competition from traditional rivals and emerging fintech players, adapting to regulatory pressures on fees, and successfully executing its digital transformation strategy centered on big data and platform services.</li>
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  Samsung Card is a dominant player in the mature South Korean credit card market, consistently vying for the top market share with Shinhan Card. Its primary competitive advantages are the powerful Samsung brand recognition and synergies within the broader Samsung Group.
  The company exhibits an attractive valuation profile, with a low Price-to-Book ratio compared to regional peers, and offers a high and stable dividend yield, making it appealing for value and income-oriented investors.
  Future growth is contingent on navigating intense competition from traditional rivals and emerging fintech players, adapting to regulatory pressures on fees, and successfully executing its digital transformation strategy centered on big data and platform services.
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Primer: Samsung Card Co (029780 KS) - Aug 2026

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Douglas Research Advisory

Cross Asset Strategy

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<li>On 28 November, the Korean National Assembly reached an agreement on a tax reform plan to officially lower taxes on dividends income. </li>
<li>The decline in tax on dividends is a definite step in the right direction. Nonetheless, the top bracket dividend tax rate cut was slightly less than what market was expecting. </li>
<li>Given that about 15%-25% dividend tax rates are more common in other developed countries,  Korea's reduction of dividend taxes is likely to be welcomed highly by many global investors.</li>
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On 28 November, the Korean National Assembly reached an agreement on a tax reform plan to officially lower taxes on dividends income. 
The decline in tax on dividends is a definite step in the right direction. Nonetheless, the top bracket dividend tax rate cut was slightly less than what market was expecting. 
Given that about 15%-25% dividend tax rates are more common in other developed countries,  Korea's reduction of dividend taxes is likely to be welcomed highly by many global investors.


Top Bracket Dividend Tax Rate Lowered to 30% in Korea [Moderately Positive]

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<li>Democratic Party lawmaker Kim Hyun-jung has introduced a revised Income Tax Act that would lower the top tax rate on dividend income from 35% to 25%.</li>
<li>Given that this proposal is coming from the ruling Democratic Party, there is a fairly high probability that this could be passed into law in 3Q 2025.</li>
<li>We provide a list of 28 mid-cap/large cap stocks in Korea with more than 35% dividend payout and 3% or more dividend yield that could benefit from this new proposal.</li>
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Democratic Party lawmaker Kim Hyun-jung has introduced a revised Income Tax Act that would lower the top tax rate on dividend income from 35% to 25%.
Given that this proposal is coming from the ruling Democratic Party, there is a fairly high probability that this could be passed into law in 3Q 2025.
We provide a list of 28 mid-cap/large cap stocks in Korea with more than 35% dividend payout and 3% or more dividend yield that could benefit from this new proposal.


Separate Dividend Tax Plan in Korea: A Push for a 25% Rate for Top Bracket

Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

Technical Analysis

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<li>We remain near-term bullish since our 4/22/25 Compass, and our intermediate-term outlook remains bullish as well (as of our 5/14/25 Compass).</li>
<li>We will maintain our bullish view as long as market dynamics remain healthy and the SPX and ACWI-US are above 5700-5785 and $120-$121 (up from 5500 and $115).</li>
<li>We are upgrading Korea(KOSPI) to overweight; we discussed May 30 several Financials and other stocks to buy. KOSPI has exploded higher since, and is now reversing its 2-year RS downtrend.</li>
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We remain near-term bullish since our 4/22/25 Compass, and our intermediate-term outlook remains bullish as well (as of our 5/14/25 Compass).
We will maintain our bullish view as long as market dynamics remain healthy and the SPX and ACWI-US are above 5700-5785 and $120-$121 (up from 5500 and $115).
We are upgrading Korea(KOSPI) to overweight; we discussed May 30 several Financials and other stocks to buy. KOSPI has exploded higher since, and is now reversing its 2-year RS downtrend.


Upgrading Korea to Overweight; MSCI ACWI and Emerging Market Breakouts

Chart based progressive global trading strategies, Chart Partners

Thomas Schroeder

Chart based progressive global trading strategies

Chart Partners

Chart Partners objective is to discover medium-term cycle turns and profit opportunities before they unfold, within structural trends while preserving capital with clear degrees of risk. We have real return ideas. 

Markets are dynamic and trading systems must reflect this. It is crucial to determine underlying correlations and lead-lag relationships within global markets and the impact on linked instruments. Our weekly Chartonics product gives you short-term trading strategies that can be applied within the medium and longer term macro trends that are mapped out in our strategy updates. 

Our methodology fuses global market variables and isolates drivers in trends. We specialize in FX, index trade in NY and Asia with a focus on Asian stocks. 

Favored Korean stock breakout patterns to take advantage of the next Kospi up legKospi has formed a bull flag that is slated to break higher targeting 342 with an ideal tactical target at 350 from which point we expect to see a good tactical pullback. Japan is due for a well needed rally pause and should see rotation into Korea given these are our top melt up bets in Asia. For those who need to add exposure to Korea we have a group of stocks that show interesting bull breakout patterns…

Favored Korean stock breakout patterns to take advantage of the next Kospi up legKospi has formed a bull flag that is slated to break higher targeting 342 with an ideal tactical target at 350 from which point we expect to see a good tactical pullback. Japan is due for a well needed rally pause and should see rotation into Korea given these are our top melt up bets in Asia. For those who need to add exposure to Korea we have a group of stocks that show interesting bull breakout patterns…

South Korea

Samsung Card Co., Ltd. offers credit card services such as issuing cards, one time payments, installments, and cash advance services. The Company also provides other financial services such as leasing and loan services.

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Samsung Card Co (029780 KS)

Primer: Samsung Card Co (029780 KS) - Aug 2026

Samsung Card is a dominant player in the mature South Korean credit card market, consistently vying for the top market share with Shinhan Card....

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Top Bracket Dividend Tax Rate Lowered to 30% in Korea [Moderately Positive]

On 28 November, the Korean National Assembly reached an agreement on a tax reform plan to officially lower taxes on dividends income.

Douglas Kim

Separate Dividend Tax Plan in Korea: A Push for a 25% Rate for Top Bracket

The final decision to lower top bracket dividend tax from 35% to 25% could be made in the next several days. There have been increasing local news...

Douglas Kim

Upgrading Korea to Overweight; MSCI ACWI and Emerging Market Breakouts

MSCI $ACWI and Emerging Market $EEM Breakouts; Upgrading Korea $EWY to Overweight; Downgrading Broad Europe, but staying Overweight Germany,...

Vermilion Research

Korea Stock Breakouts

Favored Korean stock breakout patterns to take advantage of the next Kospi up legKospi has formed a bull flag that is slated to break higher...

Thomas Schroeder

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