An employee arranges gold bars at a Samsung Gold Exchange store in Jongno District, central Seoul, on March 3. Gold prices, considered a major safe-haven asset, rose that same day, with the domestic price of gold trading at 249,900 won per gram ($4,800 per ounce) on the Korea Exchange's gold market in the morning, up 5.34 percent from the previous session.YONHAP
![An employee arranges gold bars at a Samsung Gold Exchange store in Jongno District, central Seoul, on March 3. Gold prices, considered a major safe-haven asset, rose that same day, with the domestic price of gold trading at 249,900 won per gram ($4,800 per ounce) on the Korea Exchange's gold market in the morning, up 5.34 percent from the previous session. [YONHAP]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/12599523.webp?imageId=12599523&width=960&height=616&format=jpg)
