Les actions de Corée du Sud suivent Wall Street à la hausse

    * KOSPI rises, foreigners net sellers
    * Korean won strengthens against U.S. dollar
    * South Korea benchmark bond yield falls

    SEOUL, Oct 14(Reuters) - Round-up of South Korean financial
markets:
    
** South Korean shares rose for a second straight session on
Thursday, tracking gains in the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 and on
hopes that improving corporate earnings could underpin the
global economic recovery. The Korean won strengthened, while the
benchmark bond yield fell.
    
** The benchmark KOSPI         rose 36.42 points, or 1.24%, to
2,980.83, as of 0113 GMT.
    
** Among heavyweights, technology giant Samsung Electronics
            rose 1.16% and peer SK Hynix             climbed
2.17%, while LG Chem             gained 3.22% and Naver
            advanced 3.14%.
    
** The S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended higher on Wednesday, led by
gains in big growth names like Amazon.com and Microsoft, but
JPMorgan fell along with other banks and weighed on the market.
             
    
** Foreigners were net sellers of 109.5 billion won worth of
shares on the main board. 
    
** The won was quoted at 1,189.2 per dollar on the onshore
settlement platform           , 0.39% higher than its previous
close at 1,193.8.
    
** South Korea's finance minister said the government is ready
to deploy measures to stabilise currency markets if needed, as
recent declines in the won seem fast.                
    
** In offshore trading, the won        was quoted at 1,188.4 per
dollar, down 0.2% from the previous day, while in
non-deliverable forward trading its one-month contract
              was quoted at 1,188.8.
    
** The KOSPI has risen 3.74% so far this year, but lost 6.4% in
the previous 30 trading sessions.
    
** The trading volume during the session in the KOSPI index
        was 240.72 million shares. Of the total traded issues of
926, the number of advancing shares was 731.
    
** The won has lost 8.7% against the dollar so far this year.
    
** In money and debt markets, December futures on three-year
treasury bonds         rose 0.06 point to 108.76.

 (Reporting by Cynthia Kim; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu)