Hunting For Bargain Stocks, Special Situations In Low Risk South Korea

By Jon Clements

Chan Lee and Albert Yong, who run South Korea-focused, value oriented Petra Capital Management, have negotiated the stagnation in the Korean stock markets with a simple strategy – finding mis-priced value.

Since inception five years ago, Petra has generated net annualized returns of 20.0% compared to just 4.6% for Korea’s Kospi index.

Nevertheless, in a recent article in Value Investor Insight, which calls them “bargain-hunting country experts,” Lee and Yong stress the attractiveness of the broad South Korean equity market.

South Korea: Macro attractiveness

“Many countries in the world are lately experiencing bull markets, but history indicates that stock markets cannot deviate from their underlying economies indefinitely,” they say. “We believe that the Korean market is one of the...