The KOSPI rose 2.42% to 6,977.94 — a fifth straight gain — after briefly crossing 7,000. Foreign investors bought roughly 1.45 trillion won of KOSPI shares, concentrated in Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, while soft US inflation data supported risk appetite.
KRX publishes daily net-buying figures for foreigners, institutions, and individuals on data.krx.co.kr and Naver Finance; the on-screen tables are typically labeled in millions of won, while Korean flow headlines quote units of 100 million won. The key skill: split “institutions” into pension, financial-investment, and trust money before drawing any conclusion, because each behaves differently.
The KOSPI closed at 6,813.34, up 3.56% for a fourth straight gain, as an in-line US CPI print and shareholder-return hopes sent foreign investors piling into Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. The catch: small caps fell and the won weakened.
Korea’s KOSPI closed at 6,579.04, up 3.68%, after Samsung Electronics rose 6.68%, SK hynix gained 5.54%, and futures rose fast enough to trigger a buy-side sidecar. Foreign and institutional buying overwhelmed heavy retail selling, while the KOSDAQ barely recovered from an early drop.
The KOSPI closed at 6,345.53 (+0.73%) as Samsung Electronics jumped 4.13% and foreign buyers returned. A roughly 5% oil spike on Strait of Hormuz tensions pushed the won down to around 1,417 per dollar, while the KOSDAQ faded to a 0.39% gain amid heavy intraday foreign selling.
Korea’s customs service publishes preliminary export data on the 1st, 11th and 21st of every month — one of the earliest official readings on global chip demand. Here is what each release contains, why working-day-adjusted daily averages beat the headline YoY number, and how Samsung Electronics and SK hynix trade the print.
Korea’s KOSDAQ surged 6.97%, fast enough to trip a buy-side sidecar curb, as money rotated out of Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix into biotech, construction and battery names. The KOSPI added 0.65% to hold near 6,300.
The KOSPI opened more than 1% higher and touched 6,415 before closing down 0.60% at 6,258.77 as foreign investors turned sellers. Battery, defense and bank stocks rallied in intraday trading while semiconductors stayed weak ahead of US July payrolls.
Standard monthly KOSPI 200 options expire on the second Thursday of each month and settle against the 15:20-15:30 closing auction, so some hedge- and arbitrage-linked program flows concentrate into those final ten minutes. Here is how to read the futures basis and KRX program-trade balance beforehand — and what those indicators can and cannot tell you — with a worked reading of August 2026 foreign-flow data.
Korea’s KOSPI fell 4.58% as Samsung Electronics and SK hynix tracked the Nasdaq’s AI-spending scare, triggering a sell-side sidecar. KOSDAQ closed higher on a biotech rotation, and retail investors bought the dip against heavy foreign selling.