This Nation's Stocks Are Beating the World. Should You Invest $1,000?

South Korea's stock market is going gangbusters this year. The Korea Composite Stock Price Index, or Kospi, is up 48% year to date. For comparison, both the S&P 500 index of large-cap U.S.-listed stocks and the broader Wilshire 5000 index are up about 15% this year.The Kospi is also outperforming the Nasdaq, the FTSE 100 (United Kingdom), the Hang Seng (Hong Kong), the Nikkei 225 (Japan), and the Taiex (Taiwan) indexes. And the iShares MSCI South Korea ETF (NYSEMKT: EWY), which tracks the performance of large and mid-cap stocks in the Korean market (analogous to the S&P 500), has climbed 64% year to date.What's driving this recent rise of Korean stocks?Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool