South Korea's KOSPI index plunged 6.37% to close at 6,820.60 on Thursday, falling back below 7,000 amid concerns over slowing AI infrastructure investment and intensifying memory chip competition. Mor…
Semiconductor stocks across Asia plunged on June 22, with South Korea's KOSPI index triggering a circuit breaker after falling nearly 10%, as SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics each dropped approximatel…
Seoul shares extended losses late Thursday morning, with the benchmark KOSPI falling 7.16 percent to 6,762.92, led by chip stocks amid escalating Middle East conflict and renewed AI valuation concerns…
Seoul shares opened sharply lower Thursday, with the KOSPI falling 323.91 points, or 4.45 percent, to 6,960.50, as investors took profits in technology stocks amid renewed Middle East tensions and con…
Foreign investors sold a record $110 billion in South Korean stocks in the first half of 2026, with June alone accounting for $31 billion in outflows, the largest monthly total on record, as instituti…
Seoul shares opened lower Tuesday, with the KOSPI falling 0.41 percent to 6,779.04, tracking Wall Street losses amid Middle East tensions and uncertainty over AI sectors. The Dow Jones Industrial Aver…
SK Hynix shares plunged more than 15% in Seoul on Monday, the stock's worst single-day decline on record, just three sessions after its $26.5 billion Nasdaq ADR listing. The crash triggered a 20-minut…
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, 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…
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.…
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…