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KOSDAQ is South Korea's secondary stock market, run by the Korea Exchange since 1996 for small- and mid-cap and tech-growth companies.
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Korea's 10 most-bought ETFs took in 5.35 trillion won over a month and averaged 0.83%, while KOSDAQ supplier funds led the return table at 26% to 32%. Earnings season will test whether 2.17 trillion won parked in two cash funds follows them.
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Seoul's Southern District Court voided the Korea Exchange's market-cap delisting rule, freezing two removals as about 30 KOSDAQ firms face the same test. Until the exchange adds a right of objection, any removal on market value alone is likely to end up before a judge.
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KOSPI rose 1.95% to 6,971.35 on October 1 as Korea's September chip exports hit a record $60.3 billion, reversing a yield-driven early dip. The session shows chip news can beat US rate pressure for a day. How long it can keep doing so depends on how long the memory shortage lasts.
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Samsung, Mirae Asset and KB are selling a 600 billion won National Growth Fund II with a loss buffer of 18.8% to 23.3%, up from 17.5% to 20.8%. State money and manager capital sit beneath savers, who also collect tax breaks for locking money up for five years.
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Skylabs and Ingenia Therapeutics priced at or below the floor of their indicative ranges after institutions pledged 0.17% and 2.23% of bids to lockups. Both stocks have since traded above the top of those ranges.
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Celltrion Healthcare's 1.0088 trillion won in 2017 still stands alone, and Yanolja, Viva Republica and Galaxy Corporation are all pursuing US listings while KOSDAQ turnover runs at less than half January's.
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The Korean manager's second ETF lists next month with SK hynix and Samsung Electronics at 15% apiece, half the 60% it must keep in domestic stocks. The discretion it is selling sits in the eight suppliers around them.
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Of 1,548 caution and risk designations since 2022, prices were lower 20 trading days later in 1,050 cases and down more than 30% in 398, while individuals were net buyers of 13 of the 41 stocks flagged in August.
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KRX scrapped 10-minute single-price matching for continuous trading between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m., and on the first day the biggest movers round-tripped, with Hanwha Galleria finishing about 0.9% below its regular-session close.
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Core CPI at 0.3% for August pushed futures to 86% from 69% on a September Fed hike, and Seoul's open took SK hynix down 5.24% to 1.717 million won. Philadelphia's semiconductor index had closed 1.81% higher on the 11th.
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From September 14 KRX will match orders continuously between 4 and 8 p.m., taking limit orders only, capping moves at 30% and leaving ETFs and ETNs out, with 38 brokerages covering 95.2% of volume signed up.
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The KOSPI closed above 7,000 for the first time in 33 sessions on the 9th and gave the level back within two days, with Brent above $100 a barrel and the US 10-year at 4.97% ahead of next week's FOMC.
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Five of the seven companies that debuted on the KOSDAQ in the past month are trading below their offering prices, and the exchange's pipeline points to fewer than 50 listings this year, the fewest since 2014.
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Park Hyeon-joo wants corporate tax relief to keep companies on Korea's growth board, though the exodus he cites runs at under two firms a year while 92.53% of market capitalisation, and the buyers with it, sits on the KOSPI.
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Eight second-quarter listings averaged a 132.4% first-day gain. The ten that followed averaged a loss, and one book has already priced below its range.
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Seven of eight new Seoul listings sit below their offer prices. The books cleared on day one; the damage arrived in the weeks after, which is a pricing-power problem rather than a valuation one.
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Monami is down 63.7% from its July peak and Hansung Enterprise 64.5%, leaving both roughly back at the market caps that started the delisting panic.
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The KOSPI closed up 0.88% on the 21st while the KOSDAQ fell 4.63%. That gap is not risk appetite. It is two chip names promising to hand cash back.
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The ring-shaped blood pressure monitor is already in 38 of Korea's 47 tertiary hospitals. The KOSDAQ listing asks investors to fund two more loss-making years before the thesis pays.
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AI-led ICT and bio took about 38 percent of Korea's record 8.87 trillion won half. Unitree closed its Shanghai debut up 460 percent, at an implied 1,200 times earnings.
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