LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — U.S.-listed shares of Korean stocks rose Wednesday, gaining back ground lost during a selloff in previous session when investors reacted to an exchange of artillery fire between North and South Korea. The BNY Mellon Korea ADR Index
/quotes/comstock/10w!bkkr dj
(BKKR
210.44,
-9.28,
-4.22%)
, which tracks nine stocks, rose 4.5% after Tuesday’s decline of 4.2%. Volume leader KT Corp.
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(KT
20.82,
+0.10,
+0.48%)
, a fixed-line and mobile services operator, was up 0.2% to $20.76. KB Financial Group
/quotes/comstock/13*!kb/quotes/nls/kb
(KB
47.07,
+4.03,
+9.36%)
climbed 8.4% to $46.67, steel maker Posco
/quotes/comstock/13*!pkx/quotes/nls/pkx
(PKX
99.25,
+3.91,
+4.10%)
shares rose 4.1% to $99.29, and flat panel maker LG Display Co.
/quotes/comstock/13*!lpl/quotes/nls/lpl
(LPL
18.33,
+0.78,
+4.44%)
picked up 4.2% to $18.28. Among exchange-traded funds, the iShares MSCI Korea Index Fund
/quotes/comstock/13*!ewy/quotes/nls/ewy
(EWY
55.41,
+1.91,
+3.57%)
rose 3.7%.