Seoul stocks open higher as investors hunt bargains

South Korean stocks opened higher Friday as investors hunted bargains following overnight gains on Wall Street. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index rose 27.5 points, or 0.69 percent, to 4,022.01 in the first 15 minutes of trading. Overnight, investor sentiment on Wall Street was boosted by gains in technology shares, while the US consumer price index for November rose at a slower-than-expected pace of 2.7 percent on-year, although the data lacked full coverage due to the federal gove