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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 ...

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...

Payday arrives, the number in your account looks healthy for about a week, and then somehow it's the 20th and you're rationing coffee money until the next deposit. If that cycle sounds familiar, the p...

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...

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 ...

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...

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,...

Imagine two coworkers, both 30, both earning the same salary. One spends a weekend reading forums, picking hot stocks, and checking prices during lunch. The other sets up a single automatic transfer i...

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...

Seoul just delivered the single most violent week in the modern history of its stock market — and it ended with the biggest one-day gain the KOSPI has ever recorded. On Friday, July 31, the benchmark ...
