#KOSPI

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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 2,572
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 2,025
Korea Market Brief — KOSPI up 3.56% to a fresh high as chip buying rolls on (Aug 13)
Economy

Korea Market Brief — KOSPI hits a record, up 3.68%, as foreign cash floods the chipmakers (Aug 12)

South Korea's stock market delivered one of its most emphatic sessions of the year on Wednesday, as a wave of foreign money poured into the country's chipmakers and dragged the KOSPI up 3.68% to a rec...

2026.08.12 · 12 min read · views 2,604
Korea Market Brief — KOSPI hits a record, up 3.68%, as foreign cash floods the chipmakers (Aug 12)
Economy

Korea Market Brief — KOSPI reverses higher as record chip exports lift Samsung (Aug 11)

Seoul spent the first hour of Tuesday's session in the red and finished it in the green — a quiet reversal that says more about Korea's export machine than about any single headline. The KOSPI opened ...

2026.08.11 · 11 min read · views 2,853
Korea Market Brief — KOSPI reverses higher as record chip exports lift Samsung (Aug 11)
Economy

Korea Market Brief — KOSDAQ rips 7% and trips a sidecar while KOSPI grinds higher (Aug 10)

Monday belonged to the small caps. While Seoul's blue-chip KOSPI managed only a modest bounce after a bruising end to last week, the junior KOSDAQ exploded higher, ripping almost 7% and tripping a buy...

2026.08.10 · 11 min read · views 1,410
Korea Market Brief — KOSDAQ rips 7% and trips a sidecar while KOSPI grinds higher (Aug 10)
Economy

Korea Market Brief — KOSPI slips again as SK Hynix leads chip selloff, but the won holds firm (Aug 7)

Seoul's benchmark spent Friday doing what it has done for weeks now: opening with conviction and closing with doubt. The KOSPI jumped almost 2% within minutes of the bell, only to reverse and trade as...

2026.08.07 · 14 min read · views 1,476
Korea Market Brief — KOSPI slips again as SK Hynix leads chip selloff, but the won holds firm (Aug 7)
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Economy

Korea Market Brief — KOSPI sinks 4.6% as chip giants crater, but KOSDAQ and the won hold firm (Aug 6)

Seoul's market split cleanly in two on Thursday. The large-cap KOSPI took a heavy blow as its two biggest names — Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix — were caught in a global memory-chip selloff, while ...

2026.08.06 · 12 min read · views 1,547
Korea Market Brief — KOSPI sinks 4.6% as chip giants crater, but KOSDAQ and the won hold firm (Aug 6)
Economy

Korea Market Brief — KOSPI surges 3.76% back toward 6,600 on U.S. chip rally (Aug 5)

Seoul roared back on Wednesday. Two days after the KOSPI shed more than 5% in a single session, the benchmark surged 3.76% to close at 6,598.26, up 239.31 points and back within touching distance of t...

2026.08.05 · 12 min read · views 1,862
Korea Market Brief — KOSPI surges 3.76% back toward 6,600 on U.S. chip rally (Aug 5)
Economy

Korea Market Brief -- KOSPI rebounds 1.6% while KOSDAQ rips 5.9% on record sidecar streak (Aug 4)

Korea's market split in two on Tuesday. The benchmark KOSPI clawed back some of Monday's brutal 5% loss, but the real story was underneath it: the junior KOSDAQ ripped higher for a third straight day,...

2026.08.04 · 13 min read · views 1,388
Korea Market Brief -- KOSPI rebounds 1.6% while KOSDAQ rips 5.9% on record sidecar streak (Aug 4)
Economy

Korea Market Brief — KOSPI drops 5% as chip rally reverses (Aug 3)

South Korea's whipsaw week rolled straight into Monday. Two trading days after the KOSPI posted the single largest one-day gain in its history, the benchmark gave back a chunk of it — falling 5.12% to...

2026.08.03 · 12 min read · views 1,683
Korea Market Brief — KOSPI drops 5% as chip rally reverses (Aug 3)
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