SK hynix is set to debut on the Nasdaq on Friday, with its mega listing expected to revive investor appetite for AI-driven semiconductor stocks. The offering, priced at $149 per ADR, is projected to r…
South Korea is moving to strengthen investor protections amid stock market volatility, even as chip-led export growth fueled by AI investments drives a record current account surplus of $14.1 billion …
Seoul shares opened 3.3% higher Thursday as investors bought bargain-priced chip stocks, with Samsung Electronics up 3.06% and SK hynix climbing 6.79%. The gains followed a steep sell-off, though conc…
Seoul's KOSPI index plunged 5.4% on Wednesday as investors reassessed the prospects of AI-related investments, dragging down tech giants Samsung Electronics and SK hynix. The sell-off followed Wall St…
Rebellions, an AI chip startup backed by Samsung, plans to go public in South Korea next year, CEO Sunghyun Park told CNBC. The company is leaning toward a listing on the KOSPI over the KOSDAQ.…
Rebellions, a Samsung-backed AI chip startup, plans to go public on South Korea's KOSPI in early 2027, CEO Sunghyun Park told CNBC on July 8, 2026. The company secured about 640 billion won in pre-IPO…
South Korea's KOSPI index plunged as much as 8.2% on July 7, nearing bear market territory, as investors reassess AI demand. SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics led the selloff, accounting for half the i…
The Korea Exchange activated a sell-side sidecar for the KOSPI on Wednesday after the index fell sharply, suspending program trading for five minutes. Heavy selling by foreigners and individuals, driv…
Seoul stocks opened 2.7 percent lower on July 8, 2026, amid global technology losses and investor reassessment of the AI trade, with Samsung Electronics and SK hynix declining. The KOSPI later pared l…
Seoul shares opened 2.7% lower Wednesday, tracking overnight losses on Wall Street as investors reassessed AI trade prospects. The KOSPI fell 203.83 points to 7,452.48, led by declines in Samsung Elec…
South Korea's stock market has doubled this year, driven by AI-linked semiconductor stocks like SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics, but leveraged ETFs and retail borrowing have fueled extreme volatility…
SK hynix briefly overtook Samsung Electronics as the most valuable company on Korea's KOSPI index on June 22, ending Samsung's 26-year reign, driven by SK hynix's gains from the AI memory chip boom. T…
Seoul stocks erased early gains and fell 3.21% late Wednesday morning as investors sold off semiconductors and large-cap tech shares, driven by BlackRock's downgrade of emerging-market equities over A…
South Korea's exports surged 49.7% in the first 20 days of June, driven by a 188.4% jump in semiconductor shipments as AI demand fuels a historic boom. Samsung and SK Hynix announced $520B in new chip…
South Korea's KOSPI surged 68% in Q2 2026, its best quarterly performance since 1998, driven by semiconductor giants Samsung and SK Hynix riding the AI wave. However, volatility spiked with 20 single-…
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung announced a $518 billion semiconductor megaproject on June 29, including four new memory chip fabs, an HBM packaging hub, and over 1 quadrillion won in AI data cen…
Seoul stocks ended mixed Monday as foreign selling weighed on the KOSPI, while President Lee Jae Myung's $518 billion semiconductor cluster plan sparked a rally in the Kosdaq. The Korean won weakened …
South Korea's stock market, heavily reliant on Samsung and SK Hynix, is leveraged to $725 billion in US AI capital expenditures, with 14 million retail investors exposed to the AI boom. A preview of t…
South Korea's KOSPI index has surged nearly 200% year-on-year, driven by AI chip demand that propelled Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix to record highs. The two companies now account for 40% of the in…
South Korea's KOSPI crashed nearly 10% on June 23, triggering a circuit breaker, after Broadcom's Q3 AI chip guidance of $16 billion missed Wall Street's $17.2 billion estimate. The miss exposed the f…