Kospi crashes 12% after SK Hynix earnings; best performing Asian market of 2026 plunges 43% in a month. What’s ahead?South Korea's Kospi index crashed over 11% on Wednesday, extending its drop to 43% from its June peak into technical bear market territory....
29 Jul, 2026, 01.56 PM IST
Kospi crashes 44% in a month but Nomura sees 109% upside in South Korea's stock market. Here's whySouth Korea's Kospi index dropped 44% from its June peak amid global AI growth worries and foreign fund outflows. Despite the sharp pullbac...
29 Jul, 2026, 11.51 AM IST
Sam Altman eyes South Korea as testbed for OpenAI's first hardware deviceOpenAI's CEO is keen to test its inaugural hardware in South Korea, aimed for release by the first quarter of next year. This innovative sc...
28 Jul, 2026, 01.09 PM IST
Global Market Update | South Korea's Naver jumps 10% on Nvidia's $1 billion investment planNvidia will invest one billion dollars in Naver's new shares. This investment supports expanding an AI data center project in South Korea. ...
27 Jul, 2026, 09.44 AM IST
South Korean shares turn lower as chipmakers fall ahead of earningsSouth Korean shares turned lower on Monday as chipmakers fell. Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix declined ahead of their earnings reports. N...
27 Jul, 2026, 08.22 AM IST
Charting the global economy: Growth picks up, AI boom continuesUS unemployment claims reached a near 60-year low, signaling a stable labor market. The European Central Bank rejected an immediate rate hi...
26 Jul, 2026, 10.25 AM IST
South Korea's SK Hynix, Samsung Electronics sign $950 billion partnership with US big techThe partnership includes the long-term supply of $750 billion in memory chips to US companies by SK Hynix and $200 billion in chips by Sams...
25 Jul, 2026, 01.05 PM IST
Global Market: South Korea accelerates tougher ETF trading rules to curb market volatilitySouth Korea has advanced stricter trading rules for retail investors in single-stock leveraged ETFs, requiring a 30 million won cash deposi...
24 Jul, 2026, 11.06 AM IST
Global Earnings | Hyundai Motor reports 21% drop in Q2 profit, misses forecastsHyundai Motor reported a significant profit drop in the second quarter. Weaker vehicle sales and production disruptions impacted the compan...
23 Jul, 2026, 12.06 PM IST
Global Market: South Korea's Q2 GDP beats estimates on chip exports; semiconductor stocks in focusSouth Korea's GDP expanded 0.6% in the second quarter. Robust semiconductor exports offset weakness in construction investment, reinforcing...
23 Jul, 2026, 09.28 AM IST
Kospi jumps 9% in 3 days after big crash. Is South Korea's stock market heading for another rally?South Korea's Kospi surged 4% on Thursday, extending gains for a third straight session, as stronger-than-expected economic growth and robu...
23 Jul, 2026, 09.11 AM IST
Seven boys widened India's door to South Korea and everything changedSouth Korean cultural exports like K-pop and K-dramas have significantly boosted India's engagement. This cultural wave now fuels substanti...
22 Jul, 2026, 03.00 PM IST
Global Market: South Korea's Kospi jumps 6% as AI chipmakers lead broad market reboundSouth Korean stocks surged on Wednesday, with the KOSPI jumping over 6% as semiconductor heavyweights led a broad-based rally. Renewed opti...
22 Jul, 2026, 11.47 AM IST
South Korea promises free homegrown AI chatbot this yearAs the technology has spread, countries have become increasingly concerned with so-called "AI sovereignty" -- developing domestic models se...
21 Jul, 2026, 12.57 PM IST
South Korea’s Kospi jumps 4% after 31% crash from June peak. What’s ahead?South Korea's Kospi index saw a significant jump, recovering some losses after a sharp decline. Shares of chipmakers like Samsung Electroni...
21 Jul, 2026, 09.37 AM IST
Is Korean stock market turning into open casino? How retail leverage is fueling wild swingsMemory chip bellwethers SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics make up just over half of the benchmark Kospi. Much of the stock market’s previous...
20 Jul, 2026, 03.39 PM IST
Global Market: Citi downgrades South Korea to neutral as AI chip volatility mountsCitigroup has downgraded South Korea to neutral after a year-long overweight stance, citing heightened volatility in AI-linked chip stocks ...
20 Jul, 2026, 11.54 AM IST