#Korea

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Economy

Korea Market Brief — KOSPI surges 4.61% to 6,995 as foreigners return to chip stocks (Sept 7)

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...

2026.09.07 · 15 min read · views 295
Korea Market Brief — KOSPI surges 4.61% to 6,995 as foreigners return to chip stocks (Sept 7)
Economy

Korea Market Brief — KOSPI climbs 1.64% and the won hits a 14-month high (Sept 4)

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...

2026.09.04 · 14 min read · views 361
Korea Market Brief — KOSPI climbs 1.64% and the won hits a 14-month high (Sept 4)
Economy

Korea Market Brief — KOSPI swings 243 points to close up 0.26% as buybacks do the work (Sept 3)

Seoul spent Thursday proving a point it has been making all week: the KOSPI can finish almost exactly where it started and still be a deeply unsettled market. The index opened up more than 1%, climbed...

2026.09.03 · 17 min read · views 513
Korea Market Brief — KOSPI swings 243 points to close up 0.26% as buybacks do the work (Sept 3)
Economy

Korea Market Brief — KOSPI drops 3.99% as oil and yields overwhelm record buybacks (Sept 2)

Seoul spent the whole session trying to work out whether the buyback bid still meant anything, and by the close the answer was no. The KOSPI fell 3.99% to 6,562.72, a 273-point drop that erased the pr...

2026.09.02 · 18 min read · views 456
Korea Market Brief — KOSPI drops 3.99% as oil and yields overwhelm record buybacks (Sept 2)
Economy

Korea Market Brief — Samsung and SK hynix buybacks hold up the KOSPI as August exports jump 68.7% (Sept 1)

Seoul spent most of Tuesday looking like it was going to break. The KOSPI opened lower, followed the overnight weakness on Wall Street down to a loss of as much as 1.28% in the morning, and then, with...

2026.09.01 · 17 min read · views 621
Korea Market Brief — Samsung and SK hynix buybacks hold up the KOSPI as August exports jump 68.7% (Sept 1)
Economy

Korea Market Brief — KOSPI erases a 3.5% drop to close up 0.46% on buyback flows (Aug 31)

Seoul spent the first hour of Monday's session looking like it was going to end August with a rout. The KOSPI opened 175.30 points lower at 6,613.58, a 2.58% gap down that followed through to an intra...

2026.08.31 · 14 min read · views 607
Korea Market Brief — KOSPI erases a 3.5% drop to close up 0.46% on buyback flows (Aug 31)
Economy

Korea Market Brief — KOSPI drops 1.79% as chip leaders are sold into the Nvidia rally (Aug 28)

Wall Street handed Seoul a gift overnight, and Seoul gave it back. Nvidia's blowout results had lifted the Nasdaq 1.6% on Thursday, and the KOSPI opened firm on that warmth. By late morning it had inv...

2026.08.28 · 13 min read · views 254
Korea Market Brief — KOSPI drops 1.79% as chip leaders are sold into the Nvidia rally (Aug 28)
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 607
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 577
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 663
Korea Market Brief — KOSPI recovers from a 4% morning drop to close up 0.68% (Aug 25)
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