Upgraded Korea poised for offshore renaissance

Sean Gladwell - Fotolia

After a subdued year, Korean borrowers are gearing up for a busy 2016 buoyed by a credit rating boost from Standard & Poor’s, which made the country fully double A for the first time in its history. But will issuers be able to capture the lower yields they crave in the face of mounting global macro-economic pressures? Narae Kim finds out.