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KOSPI rises, foreigners net buyers

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Korean won strengthens against dollar

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South Korea benchmark bond yield falls

SEOUL, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Round-up of South Korean financial markets:

** South Korean shares rose for a second session on Thursday, in line with global markets after the U.S. Federal Reserve's December-meeting minutes, with online service providers leading the gains.

** The won strengthened, and the benchmark bond yield fell.

** The benchmark KOSPI rose 10.28 points, or 0.46%, to 2,266.26 by 0043 GMT, after jumping 1.68% jump on Wednesday.

** Online platform stocks tracked a rally in Chinese technology stocks on hopes for regulatory easing.

** Search engine Naver rose 3.01%, instant messenger Kakao climbed 2.69%, while its financial service affiliates Kakaobank and Kakaopay jumped 6.69% and 8.55%, each.

** "Growth stocks are also benefiting from a fall in bond yields after Fed's December meeting minutes, which read hawkish but mostly as expected," said Park Kwang-nam, analyst at Mirae Asset Securities.

** All officials at the Fed's December policy meeting agreed the U.S. central bank should slow the pace of its aggressive interest rate increases, the minutes showed.

** But policymakers still focused on controlling inflation and worried about any "misperception" in financial markets that their commitment to fighting inflation was flagging.

** Among heavyweights, chipmakers advanced, but automakers and battery manufacturers declined.

** Samsung Electronics' quarterly profit will likely plunge 58% to its lowest in six years as a global economic downturn saps demand for electronic devices and clouds the outlook for the memory chip industry.

** Foreigners were net buyers of shares worth 66.3 billion won ($52.24 million).

** The won was quoted at 1,268.0 per dollar on the onshore settlement platform, up 0.29%.

** In money and debt markets, March futures on three-year treasury bonds fell 0.08 point to 103.79.

** The most liquid three-year Korean treasury bond yield rose by 2.9 basis points to 3.661%, while the benchmark 10-year yield fell by 1.3 basis points to 3.585%. ($1 = 1,269.1900 won) (Reporting by Jihoon Lee; editing by Uttaresh.V)