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Economy

Korea Market Brief — BOK hikes to 3% as KOSPI closes up 1.53% (Aug 27)

Seoul spent Thursday doing two things at once: celebrating a chip rally and absorbing an interest rate rise it was not fully expecting. The KOSPI opened sharply higher on Nvidia's record quarterly res...

2026.08.27 · 15 min read · views 350
Korea Market Brief — BOK hikes to 3% as KOSPI closes up 1.53% (Aug 27)
Economy

Korea Market Brief — KOSPI reclaims 6,800 as the foreign selling wave finally thins (Aug 26)

Seoul spent Wednesday doing something it has not managed much this month: closing quietly higher, without a scare in either direction. The KOSPI opened lower, drifted through a choppy morning as Wall ...

2026.08.26 · 18 min read · views 429
Korea Market Brief — KOSPI reclaims 6,800 as the foreign selling wave finally thins (Aug 26)
Economy

Korea Market Brief — KOSPI recovers from a 4% morning drop to close up 0.68% (Aug 25)

Seoul spent Tuesday morning looking like it was heading for a second straight rout, and spent the afternoon undoing it. The KOSPI opened 2.4% lower at 6,535.93, extended the drop to more than 4% at it...

2026.08.25 · 13 min read · views 510
Korea Market Brief — KOSPI recovers from a 4% morning drop to close up 0.68% (Aug 25)
Economy

Korea Market Brief — KOSPI drops 3.12% as Samsung falls 8.7% on its record payout (Aug 24)

Samsung Electronics gave shareholders the largest payout package in its history on Friday. On Monday, the stock fell almost nine percent. That single sentence explains most of what happened in Seoul o...

2026.08.24 · 15 min read · views 572
Korea Market Brief — KOSPI drops 3.12% as Samsung falls 8.7% on its record payout (Aug 24)
Economy

Korea Market Brief — KOSPI holds 6,900 as Samsung approves a record payout, KOSDAQ sinks 4.6% (Aug 21)

Seoul spent Friday, August 21 running two markets at once. The KOSPI opened down 1.35 percent, tracking a weak Wall Street session, then spent the day climbing out of the hole on the back of two stock...

2026.08.21 · 15 min read · views 633
Korea Market Brief — KOSPI holds 6,900 as Samsung approves a record payout, KOSDAQ sinks 4.6% (Aug 21)
Economy

Korea Market Brief — KOSPI rebounds 5.89% as SK hynix unveils a 40 trillion won buyback (Aug 20)

Seoul's benchmark index spent Thursday undoing almost exactly what it had done the day before. A session after the KOSPI dropped 5.55% in the worst of this week's global bond-market turmoil, it closed...

2026.08.20 · 15 min read · views 655
Korea Market Brief — KOSPI rebounds 5.89% as SK hynix unveils a 40 trillion won buyback (Aug 20)
Economy

Korea Market Brief — KOSPI plunges 5.55% as global bond selloff hits the chipmakers (Aug 19)

Seoul had one of its worst sessions of the year on Wednesday, and the trigger did not come from Korea. A global selloff in long-dated government bonds sent yields to multi-year highs in the United Sta...

2026.08.19 · 14 min read · views 490
Korea Market Brief — KOSPI plunges 5.55% as global bond selloff hits the chipmakers (Aug 19)
Economy

Korea Market Brief — KOSPI gives up a 3% gain, closing down 1.55% (Aug 18)

Seoul spent Tuesday morning celebrating and Tuesday afternoon unwinding it. The KOSPI opened 2.15% higher at 7,127.77, ran to an intraday 7,216.62 on another wave of chip buying, and then spent the re...

2026.08.18 · 15 min read · views 554
Korea Market Brief — KOSPI gives up a 3% gain, closing down 1.55% (Aug 18)
Economy

Korea Market Brief — KOSPI clears 7,000 intraday as chip buying rolls into a fourth day (Aug 14)

Seoul's chip trade did it again. The KOSPI pushed above the 7,000 mark for the first time in fifteen sessions on Friday, tapping an intraday high of 7,010.86 before profit-taking pulled it back to a s...

2026.08.14 · 12 min read · views 802
Korea Market Brief — KOSPI clears 7,000 intraday as chip buying rolls into a fourth day (Aug 14)
Economy

Korea Market Brief — KOSPI up 3.56% to a fresh high as chip buying rolls on (Aug 13)

Seoul's chip trade did it again. The KOSPI closed up 3.56% at 6,813.34 on Thursday, a fourth straight advance, as foreign investors kept pouring money into Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix on the back...

2026.08.13 · 12 min read · views 561
Korea Market Brief — KOSPI up 3.56% to a fresh high as chip buying rolls on (Aug 13)
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