As Samsung and Hyundai repatriate more earnings, weak won gets some reprieve

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South Korea's major exporters of cars and smartphones are bringing home a bigger chunk of their earnings this year to enjoy new tax breaks, and their 'reshoring' has become one rare source of support for a depreciating currency.

, are a welcome relief for the won which has been crushed by Korea's falling exports and a broad U.S. dollar rally.

The flows are a sizeable buffer for Korea's balance of payments and the won, which has fallen for two years and is also down 5% this year. "Capital reshoring has been a relief to the won," said Min Gyeong-won, a currency analyst at local Woori Bank, adding that the flows had helped offset sluggish exports by becoming a source of dollars.

"Our primary goal is to to expand production capacity of electric cars in the country, although not all of it ," a spokesperson at Hyundai Motor Group said.

 

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