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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 832
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 1,122
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 1,359
Korea Market Brief — KOSPI reverses higher as record chip exports lift Samsung (Aug 11)
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 1,014
Korea Market Brief — KOSPI surges 3.76% back toward 6,600 on U.S. chip rally (Aug 5)
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 882
Korea Market Brief — KOSPI drops 5% as chip rally reverses (Aug 3)
Economy

Korea Market Brief — KOSPI's record 17.9% rebound as chip giants roar back (July 31)

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 ...

2026.07.31 · 13 min read · views 680
Korea Market Brief — KOSPI's record 17.9% rebound as chip giants roar back (July 31)
Economy

Korea Market Brief — Samsung's record chip earnings can't stop KOSPI's 1.2% slide (July 30)

Seoul gave investors a full emotional arc in a single session. The KOSPI opened sharply higher — briefly up more than 5% and touching intraday highs near 5,976 — after Samsung Electronics delivered a ...

2026.07.30 · 13 min read · views 1,427
Korea Market Brief — Samsung's record chip earnings can't stop KOSPI's 1.2% slide (July 30)
Economy

Korea Market Brief — KOSPI rebounds ~2.8% as chip giants steady after record crash (July 29)

Seoul got its footing back on Wednesday. A day after the KOSPI suffered one of the worst single-session falls in its history — an 10.84% crash that briefly pushed the index below 6,000 — Korean stocks...

2026.07.29 · 13 min read · views 938
Korea Market Brief — KOSPI rebounds ~2.8% as chip giants steady after record crash (July 29)
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