The Korea Fund Inc is a closedended equity mutual fund launched and managed by Allianz Global Investors US LLC The fund invests in the public equity markets of Korea It seeks to invest in stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors The fund primarily invests in growth stocks of companies It employs fundamental analysis with a bottomup stock picking approach focusing on such factors as pricetoearnings ratios dividend yields and earningspershare growth to create its portfolio The fund benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the MSCI Korea 2550 Index It uses Grassroots Research to make its investments The Korea Fund Inc was formed on August 29 1984 and is domiciled in the United States