A daily look at Korea
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Bank of Korea data show the housing price outlook index jumped to 127, a 4-year-10-month high, even after a rate hike. Here's why supply, not cheap money, is driving the surge.
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The KOSPI plunged 10.84% to 6,023.66 — its steepest one-day fall since September 2001 — as China chip fears crushed Samsung and SK Hynix. We also unpack Korea's record 6.7% welfare benchmark increase and why the real heat-wave risk starts this week.
fromis_9's first full album as a 5-member, independent act, 'Glow ME,' sold about 93,900 copies in its opening week — the group's 4th-best ever. Here's what the chart data says about it.
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South Korea's KOSPI sank 5.72% in a day and triggered a sell-side circuit breaker. What a record 45 triggers this year reveal about the chip rally's future.
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Korea's KOSPI plunged 5.72% to 6,690 the day a 12.5% US forced-labor tariff took effect. How today ranks against history's worst crashes, how the tariff cap really works, and the fandom economics behind 3.09 million albums.