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The Korea Fund, Inc.

SCHEDULE OF PORTFOLIO INVESTMENTS

AS OF SEPTEMBER 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

Investments

   Shares      Value ($)  

COMMON STOCKS—99.2%

     

Air Freight & Logistics—0.4%

     

Hyundai Glovis Co. Ltd.

     4,500        506,467  
     

 

 

 

Auto Components—4.8%

     

Hankook Tire & Technology Co. Ltd.

     63,800        1,557,260  

Hyundai Mobis Co. Ltd.

     30,000        3,960,106  
     

 

 

 
        5,517,366  
     

 

 

 

Automobiles—5.7%

     

Hyundai Motor Co. (Preference)

     55,000        3,197,654  

Kia Corp.

     66,600        3,314,815  
     

 

 

 
        6,512,469  
     

 

 

 

Banks—5.9%

     

Hana Financial Group, Inc.

     152,700        3,749,547  

KakaoBank Corp.*

     20,600        285,366  

KB Financial Group, Inc.

     90,900        2,745,047  
     

 

 

 
        6,779,960  
     

 

 

 

Biotechnology—1.5%

     

Hugel, Inc.*

     24,906        1,761,225  
     

 

 

 

Capital Markets—1.4%

     

Korea Investment Holdings Co. Ltd.

     47,300        1,554,186  
     

 

 

 

Chemicals—8.5%

     

Dongjin Semichem Co. Ltd.

     36,522        665,442  

LG Chem Ltd.

     16,340        6,033,305  

SK IE Technology Co. Ltd.*(a)

     26,600        960,872  

SKC Co. Ltd.

     37,000        2,137,427  
     

 

 

 
        9,797,046  
     

 

 

 

Construction & Engineering—3.6%

     

DL E&C Co. Ltd.

     56,300        1,334,698  

DL Holdings Co. Ltd.

     25,900        1,029,489  

Samsung Engineering Co. Ltd.*

     111,300        1,752,065  
     

 

 

 
        4,116,252  
     

 

 

 

Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components—1.5%

     

Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd.

     23,000        1,774,552  
     

 

 

 

Entertainment—2.1%

     

JYP Entertainment Corp.

     13,500        548,468  

NCSoft Corp.

     7,750        1,853,771  
     

 

 

 
        2,402,239  
     

 

 

 

Food & Staples Retailing—1.1%

     

BGF retail Co. Ltd.

     10,600        1,219,660  
     

 

 

 

Food Products—1.2%

     

CJ CheilJedang Corp.

     4,900        1,397,955  
     

 

 

 

Health Care Equipment & Supplies—0.5%

     

Suheung Co. Ltd.

     26,700        593,366  
     

 

 

 

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure—1.7%

     

Kangwon Land, Inc.*

     120,250        1,963,263  
     

 

 

 

Household Durables—2.2%

     

Coway Co. Ltd.

     33,800        1,263,999  

Zinus, Inc.

     50,700        1,221,457  
     

 

 

 
        2,485,456  
     

 

 

 

Industrial Conglomerates—1.7%

     

SK, Inc.

     15,000        1,991,583  
     

 

 

 

Insurance—2.8%

     

Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance Co. Ltd.

     18,300        2,340,541  

Samsung Life Insurance Co. Ltd.

     20,100        870,621  
     

 

 

 
        3,211,162  
     

 

 

 

Interactive Media & Services—6.5%

     

AfreecaTV Co. Ltd.

     17,200        751,761  

Kakao Corp.

     49,500        1,947,798  

NAVER Corp.

     36,000        4,795,784  
     

 

 

 
        7,495,343  
     

 

 

 

IT Services—0.8%

     

Kakaopay Corp.*

     27,700        936,311  
     

 

 

 

Life Sciences Tools & Services—2.9%

     

Samsung Biologics Co. Ltd.*(a)

     5,960        3,336,230  
     

 

 

 

Marine—0.5%

     

Pan Ocean Co. Ltd.

     184,289        574,349  
     

 

 

 

Media—0.8%

     

Innocean Worldwide, Inc.

     32,200        929,271  
     

 

 

 

Metals & Mining—3.1%

     

Korea Zinc Co. Ltd.

     1,810        748,373  

POSCO Holdings, Inc.

     19,600        2,859,007  
     

 

 

 
        3,607,380  
     

 

 

 

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels—2.5%

     

SK Innovation Co. Ltd.*

     17,800        1,763,939  

S-Oil Corp.

     19,400        1,097,394  
     

 

 

 
        2,861,333  
     

 

 

 

Personal Products—1.5%

     

LG H&H Co. Ltd.

     3,890        1,705,061  
     

 

 

 

Pharmaceuticals—1.2%

     

Yuhan Corp.

     37,900        1,429,278  
     

 

 

 

Professional Services—0.8%

     

NICE Information Service Co. Ltd.

     79,000        733,503  

Wantedlab, Inc.*

     18,493        198,989  
     

 

 

 
        932,492  
     

 

 

 

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment—8.2%

     

ISC Co. Ltd.

     37,200        825,332  

SK Hynix, Inc.

     149,500        8,551,433  
     

 

 

 
        9,376,765  
     

 

 

 

Specialty Retail—1.1%

     

K Car Co. Ltd.

     128,100        1,212,291  
     

 

 

 

Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals—22.0%

     

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

     690,400        25,350,972  
     

 

 

 

Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods—0.4%

     

Hwaseung Enterprise Co. Ltd.

     57,371        424,619  
     

 

 

 

Wireless Telecommunication Services—0.3%

     

SK Telecom Co. Ltd.

     11,300        398,931  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL COMMON STOCKS
(COST $135,506,354)

 

     114,154,833  
     

 

 

 

SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS—0.3%

 

  

INVESTMENT OF CASH COLLATERAL FROM SECURITIES LOANED—0.3%

 

  

Goldman Sachs Financial Square Government Fund 3.66%(c)(Cost $358,300)

     358,300        358,300  

Total Investments—99.5% (Cost $135,864,654)

 

     114,513,133  

Other Assets Less Liabilities—0.5%

        527,650  
     

 

 

 

Net Assets—100.0%

 

     115,040,783  
     

 

 

 

 

Percentages indicated are based on net assets.


The Korea Fund, Inc.

SCHEDULE OF PORTFOLIO INVESTMENTS

AS OF SEPTEMBER 30, 2022 (Unaudited) (continued)

 

Abbreviations
Preference    A special type of equity investment that shares in the earnings of the company, has limited voting rights, and may have a dividend preference. Preference shares may also have liquidation preference.
(a)    Security exempt from registration pursuant to Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. Regulation S applies to securities offerings that are made outside of the United States and do not involve direct selling efforts in the United States and as such may have restrictions on resale.
(b)    The security or a portion of this security is on loan at September 30, 2022. The total value of securities on loan at September 30, 2022 is $341,233.
(c)    The rate shown is the current yield as of September 30, 2022.
*    Non-income producing security.


The Korea Fund, Inc.

SCHEDULE OF PORTFOLIO INVESTMENTS

AS OF SEPTEMBER 30, 2022 (Unaudited) (continued)

 

A. Valuation of Investments – Investments are valued in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) and the Fund’s valuation policies set forth by, and under the supervision and responsibility of, the Board of Trustees of the Trust (the “Board”), which established the following approach to valuation, as described more fully below: (i) investments for which market quotations are readily available shall be valued at their market value and (ii) all other investments for which market quotations are not readily available shall be valued at their fair value as determined in good faith by the Board.

J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc. (the “Administrator”) has established the J.P. Morgan Asset Management Americas Valuation Committee (“AVC”) to assist the Board with the oversight and monitoring of the valuation of the Fund’s investments. The Administrator implements the valuation policies of the Fund’s investments, as directed by the Board. The AVC oversees and carries out the policies for the valuation of investments held in the Fund. This includes monitoring the appropriateness of fair values based on results of ongoing valuation oversight including, but not limited to, consideration of macro or security specific events, market events, and pricing vendor and broker due diligence. The Administrator is responsible for discussing and assessing the potential impacts to the fair values on an ongoing basis, and, at least on a quarterly basis, with the AVC and the Board.

Equities and other exchange-traded instruments are valued at the last sale price or official market closing price on the primary exchange on which the instrument is traded before the net asset values (“NAV”) of the Fund are calculated on a valuation date.

Certain foreign equity instruments are valued by applying international fair value factors provided by an approved Pricing Service. The factors seek to adjust the local closing price for movements of local markets post-closing, but prior to the time the NAVs are calculated.

Valuations reflected in this report are as of the report date. As a result, changes in valuation due to market events and/or issuer-related events after the report date and prior to issuance of the report are not reflected herein.

The various inputs that are used in determining the valuation of the Fund’s investments are summarized into the three broad levels listed below.

 

   

Level 1 — Unadjusted inputs using quoted prices in active markets for identical investments.

 

   

Level 2 — Other significant observable inputs including, but not limited to, quoted prices for similar investments, inputs other than quoted prices that are observable for investments (such as interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.) or other market corroborated inputs.

 

   

Level 3 — Significant inputs based on the best information available in the circumstances, to the extent observable inputs are not available (including the Fund’s assumptions in determining the fair value of investments).

A financial instrument’s level within the fair value hierarchy is based on the lowest level of any input, both individually and in the aggregate, that is significant to the fair value measurement. The inputs or methodology used for valuing instruments are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those instruments.

The following table represents each valuation input as presented on the Schedule of Portfolio Investments (“SOI”):

 

     Level 1
Quoted prices
     Level 2
Other significant
observable
inputs
     Level 3
Significant
unobservable
inputs
     Total  

Investments in Securities

           

Common Stocks

   $      $ 114,154,833      $      $ 114,154,833  

Short-Term Investments

           

Investment of Cash Collateral from Securities Loaned

     358,300                      358,300  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total Investments in Securities

   $ 358,300      $ 114,154,833      $      $ 114,513,133