If you follow Korean companies or travel to Seoul, you have probably noticed that the won seems to have a mind of its own. It weakens when global investors get nervous, it strengthens when chip export...
When the Bank of Korea (BOK) announces a rate decision, headlines in English usually stop at "held" or "raised." What they rarely explain is why a quarter-point move in Seoul lands so differently on a...
When people say the Korean won is "weak" or "strong," they usually mean one number: how many won it takes to buy one US dollar. But for Korea, that number is not just a price on a screen. It sits at t...
When the Bank of Korea (BOK) changes its policy rate, global headlines tend to treat it as a single number. Inside Korea, the same decision travels along several very different paths: into monthly mor...
If you have ever looked at a chart of the Korean won and wondered why it lurches around more than the euro or the yen, you are noticing something real. The won is a mid-sized currency attached to a ve...
Seoul spent Thursday doing something it has not had to do often this year: defending a round number. The KOSPI opened soft, ran up to 7,072.79, then fell all the way to 6,898.45 in the middle of the s...
The KOSPI finally did the thing it had been failing to do since late July: it closed above 7,000. Seoul's benchmark ended Wednesday, September 9, at 7,051.64, up 97.12 points (+1.40%) — its first clos...
Seoul spent Tuesday proving that 7,000 is a level, not a destination. The KOSPI opened above the round number for the first time in 15 trading sessions, ran to 7,171.52 at its intraday peak, and then ...
Seoul spent the first week of September watching everyone head for the exit at once. On Monday, two of the three doors reversed direction — and the index moved 308 points. The KOSPI closed at 6,995.39...
Seoul spent most of this week being pushed around by things happening somewhere else — oil, US yields, a brutal Wednesday. On Friday the pressure finally came off, and it came off in the two places th...
