South Korean stocks gain after Nvidia hits record high overnight

SEOUL, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Round-up of South Korean financial markets:

** South Korean shares rose on Tuesday, helped by gains in chip and IT shares after Nvidia hit a record high ahead of a speech by chief executive Jensen Huang.

** The blue-chip KOSPI .KS11 added 25.54 points, or 1.03%, at 2,514.36 as of 02:15 GMT. The won strengthened, while the benchmark bond yield fell.

** Many of South Korea's chipmakers are involved in the supply of high bandwith memory (HBM) chips for Nvidia's AI processors.

** Among index heavyweights, chipmaker Samsung Electronics 005930.KS rose 0.89%. Battery maker LG Energy Solution 373220.KS climbed 2.07%.

** Hyundai 005380.KS added 0.24%, while sister automaker Kia 000270.KS lost 0.60%. Search engine Naver 035420.KS and instant messenger Kakao 035720.KS advanced 0.48% and 0.26%, respectively.

** On Wall Street, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite hit more than one-week highs overnight. Nvidia NVDA.O surged 3.43%.

** Nvidia's Chief Executive Jensen Huang will deliver the opening keynote speech at CES later on Monday and likely unveil new videogame chips and detail efforts to parlay the company's success in artificial intelligence (AI) into other markets outside of the data center.

** Of the total 941 traded issues, 550 advanced and 305 declined.

** Foreigners net bought shares worth 107 billion won ($73.6 million) on the main board on Tuesday.

** The won was quoted at 1,453.1 per U.S. dollar on the onshore settlement platform KRW=KFTC, 0.47% higher than Monday's close of 1,460.0.

** The KOSPI has risen 4.79% so far this year, gaining 0.3% in the last 30 sessions.

** The won has gained 1.3% against the dollar year-to-date.

** In money and debt markets, March futures on three-year treasury bonds KTBc1 rose 0.09 point to 106.87.

** The most liquid three-year Korean treasury bond yield KR3YT=RR rose by 2.2 basis points to 2.511%, while the benchmark 10-year yield KR10YT=RR fell by 2.3 basis points to 2.805%.

($1 = 1,454.0000 won)

(Reporting by Cynthia Kim; Editing by Sumana Nandy)

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