Between January and June, the operating profits of the ten accounted for more than 70% of the profits of all the companies listed on the Korea Exchange.
The Korea Stock Exchange's only sanction against companies which fail to file earnings statements and other price-sensitive information on time is to suspend trading in the transgressor's shares for one day.
Both were set up with the help of Korea Exchange (KRX), which runs the third-largest bourse in Asia.
By comparison to other exchanges in the U.S., Australia, Korea and Taiwan, the Hong Kong exchange appears a technological troglodyte.
However, if the situation were framed solely as a dispute between the U.S. and North Korea, the focus would be shifted to what North Korea is demanding in exchange for nuclear disarmament.
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The US imposed sanctions on North Korea's main foreign exchange bank after the recent nuclear tests and had urged other countries, including China, to cut ties with the bank.
Kim Kyong Lim, chief executive of Korea Exchange Bank, the main lender to Hyundai, argues that this should be no problem, since the bank's sub-standard loans stood at less than 18% of its portfolio at the end of June.
Last year, the State Department announced an agreement with Pyongyang for the delivery of food aid to North Korea in exchange for steps to contain its nuclear program.
That has led the administration to reject the idea of offering North Korea additional aid in exchange for new North Korean vows to abide by agreements it has repeatedly abrogated.
In response to overseas media reports that the Bank of China has closed the account of North Korea's main foreign exchange bank, Shi Yinhong, an international affairs expert at Beijing's Renmin University tells Hong Kong's South China Morning Post that Beijing is losing patience with Pyongyang.
Deutsche was also fined 1bn won over the alleged manipulation, the largest fine handed down by Korea's stock exchange.
As The Economist went to press that was the choice facing HSBC, whose dogged pursuit of Korea Exchange Bank (KEB) has become a litmus test of South Korean attitudes to foreign investment.
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As its own free-trade agreement with the U.S. grows less likely, with Seoul's ruling party willing to accommodate Kim Jong-il before George Bush, the country's prosecutors keep after private equity outfit Lone Star of the U.S. for its flipping of Korea Exchange Bank (KEB).
The Bank of China's suspension of business further complicates the ability of the Foreign Trade Bank, North Korea's main foreign exchange bank, to access a key financial market.
In his previous film, "The Red Chapel, " he sneaked a peek into North Korea under the guise of filming a theatrical troupe on a cultural exchange.
Places once indifferent to each other in economic terms think of India and China, or South Korea and Central Asia are waking up to the possibilities of exchange.
South Korea seems to be the place to invest, or at least the place that exchange-traded fund creators think you want to invest.
But its heated rhetoric has raised concerns of a sudden escalation of conflict in the event of a small-scale incident such as exchange of fire with South Korea.
In exchange, they said, North Korea would be removed from the United States' list of state sponsors of terrorism and would have sanctions removed under the Trading with the Enemy Act.
After months of tension a new agreement was reached under which Pyongyang agreed to freeze its nuclear programme, in exchange for two new reactors to be built by the United States, South Korea, Japan and the European Union.
On February 29, the U.S. agreed to provide 240, 000 tons of food to North Korea in exchange for its promises to freeze missile tests and uranium enrichment, and to grant international inspectors access to its plutonium production facility at Yongbyon.
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The assertive U.S. response came in an intensifying exchange of threats and oaths with North Korea and as Russia and China appealed for calm.
In exchange, North Korea agreed to stop running its smaller reactor and promised to allow the previously blocked international inspections, but only at some time in the future.
In 1994, the US embraced appeasement of North Korea when it signed the Agreed Framework that maintained the economic viability of the North Korean regime in exchange for Pyongyang's pledge to end its nuclear weapons program.
Those efforts led to the signing of the February 13, 2007 bilateral deal between the US and North Korea, in which Pyongyang pledged to end its nuclear programs within 60 days in exchange for diplomatic acceptance by the US and economic assistance from the US and the international community.
South Korea, he points out, opened its first exchange in 1956, only three years after the Korean war.
The U.S. Treasury Department announced it had put sanctions on North Korea's primary foreign-exchange bank in response to Pyongyang's nuclear test last month.
Russia is currently negotiating a 40 year gas supply deal to South Korea (who recently began importing Russian oil) in exchange for technological modernization and investment of the type that Samsung offers.
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