Bond issuance in South Korea shot up more than 23 percent in 2020 due to a surge in government debt sales to tackle the fallout of the coronavirus outbreak, data showed Monday. The value of bonds issued in Asia's fourth-largest economy came to 844.7 trillion won (US$774 billion) in 2020, up 23.2 percent from the previous year, according to the data from the Korea Financial Investment Association, South Korean News ...