Samsung Electronics was the most-gifted domestic stock from parents to their minor children last month, accounting for more than half of all gifts, according to KB Securities data from its stock-gifting service. Samsung took 56.3 percent by transaction count, with Kia second at 6.5 percent. Other frequently gifted names included Kakao, HLB and EcoPro BM. The top 10 gifted stocks all posted gains last month, with SK Hynix up 59.4 percent.

POSCO Future M will build its first overseas production base for synthetic graphite anode materials in Vietnam after receiving an investment registration certificate from Thai Nguyen province at a Korea-Vietnam business forum in Hanoi. The company plans to invest about 357 billion won, break ground on a first-phase plant in the second half of this year at the Song Cong 2 industrial complex, and begin mass production in 2028. It said it has secured customers for the first-phase volume.