* KOSPI rises, foreigners net buyers

* Korean won strengthens against dollar

* South Korea benchmark bond yield falls

SEOUL, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Round-up of South Korean financial markets:

** South Korean shares rose on Monday as investors managed to weather a slightly hawkish outlook and took comfort in U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's speech being largely in line with their expectations.

** The Korean won strengthened, while the benchmark bond yield fell.

** The U.S. Fed may need to raise interest rates further to cool still-too-high inflation, Powell said on Friday at a central bank conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, promising to move with care.

** "There were a lot of hawkish elements, but they were mostly expected," said Na Jeong-hwan, an analyst at NH Investment Securities.

** "Any comment on a higher neutral rate could have made it more hawkish, but there was none, which provided relief to the stock market," Na added.

** The benchmark KOSPI was up 19.28 points, or 0.77%, at 2,538.42, as of 0203 GMT.

** Among index heavyweights, chipmakers and biopharmaceutical makers fell, but battery makers and online platform companies advanced.

** POSCO Future M rose 1.08% as the chemical and battery material maker made an announcement to target 43 trillion won ($32.57 billion) in sales by 2030 on rising demand for batteries for electric vehicles.

** Of the total 934 issues traded, 684 shares rose.

** Foreigners were net buyers of shares worth 19.5 billion won ($14.73 million) on the main board so far on Monday.

** The won was quoted at 1,323.6 per dollar on the onshore settlement platform, 0.12% higher than its previous close at 1,325.2.

** In money and debt markets, September futures on three-year treasury bonds fell 0.04 point to 103.28.

** The most liquid three-year Korean treasury bond yield rose 2.1 basis points to 3.809%, while the benchmark 10-year yield dropped 1.6 basis points to 3.918%.

($1 = 1,323.5800 won) (Reporting by Jihoon Lee; Editing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips)