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Autos and Telecoms Rally; Chip-Equipment Names Drag KOSDAQ into the Red by Midday
By the noon snapshot on Friday, August 14 (2026), the KOSPI had pulled back from its intraday high of 7,010.86 (reached at 09:02) to trade near 6,900, having touched a session low of 6,848.43 at 10:34 — a peak-to-trough intraday swing of 1.42% on the stated high/low spread.The KOSDAQ followed a similar arc, peaking at 879.29 at 09:07 before drifting to a session low of 845.41 at 10:15, with foreign investors Net SaleThe excess of sell orders over buy orders placed by a given investor group during a session, expressed in won.Persistent net selling by a dominant group can weigh on index levels independent of headline index moves. ₩119.3bn and retail buyers absorbing ₩289.5bn on the junior board through the morning session (Provisional (Intraday) Flow DataInvestor flow figures collected before KRX’s official 18:00–20:00 KST settlement; subject to revision when the final figures are published.Intraday flow readings can differ from confirmed evening figures; The Silmari flags all such data as provisional until the final edition., collected 11:52 KST).
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Foreigners provisionally net bought ₩1.22tn on KOSPI today, extending a one-week inflow of ₩4.73tn, while retail investors net sold ₩719.1bn — flows are provisional ahead of tonight’s KRX settlement.
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SK hynix and Samsung Electronics Topped KOSPI Turnover; Jeju Semiconductor Led KOSDAQ Volume Despite Steep Decline
Through the morning session, SK hynix generated ₩3.80tn in turnover — the heaviest on the KOSPI — opening at ₩1,695,000, hitting an intraday high of ₩1,697,000 at 09:12, then sliding to a session low of ₩1,626,000 at 10:35 before the noon snapshot showed it at ₩1,644,000; Samsung Electronics, second by value at ₩2.68tn, followed a similar early-peak-then-retreat path, touching its session high of ₩275,500 at 09:00 and its low of ₩266,000 at 10:13.Samsung Electro-Mechanics ranked third on the KOSPI at ₩1.06tn in turnover, while SK Telecom drew ₩173.3bn — notable for an upward trajectory that saw it reach its session high of ₩100,300 at 10:07, an intraday counter-current to the broader index’s retreat from its own morning peak.
| Stock | Prior close | Open | Gap | High (time) | 12:00 Current Price | Change | Low (time) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SK hynix | 1,593,000 | 1,695,000 | +6.40% | 1,697,000 (09:12) | 1,639,000 (12:00) | +2.89% | 1,626,000 (10:35) |
| Samsung Electronics | 268,000 | 275,000 | +2.61% | 274,750 (09:02) | 269,000 (12:00) | +0.37% | 266,000 (10:13) |
| Samsung Electro-Mechanics | 1,503,000 | 1,593,000 | +5.99% | 1,589,000 (09:01) | 1,560,000 (12:00) | +3.79% | 1,511,000 (10:06) |
| SK Square | 1,117,000 | 1,182,000 | +5.82% | 1,169,000 (11:35) | 1,161,000 (12:00) | +3.94% | 1,130,000 (09:16) |
| Samsung Electronics (Pref.) | 187,800 | 191,600 | +2.02% | 194,500 (09:03) | 191,300 (12:00) | +1.86% | 188,100 (10:15) |
| Hyundai Motor | 418,500 | 424,000 | +1.31% | 452,500 (09:38) | 442,500 (12:00) | +5.73% | 425,000 (09:01) |
| LG Electronics | 206,500 | 212,000 | +2.66% | 225,000 (09:03) | 211,000 (12:00) | +2.18% | 206,500 (10:34) |
| SK Telecom | 91,100 | 92,400 | +1.43% | 100,300 (10:07) | 98,200 (12:00) | +7.79% | 92,600 (09:01) |
| SK eternix | 57,100 | 57,800 | +1.23% | 58,800 (09:45) | 57,000 (12:00) | −0.18% | 55,900 (09:06) |
| Kumho Electric | 6,890 | 7,940 | +15.24% | 8,170 (09:05) | 6,910 (12:00) | +0.29% | 6,510 (09:44) |
Hyundai Motor bucked the broad pattern: its session low of ₩421,500 came at the open (09:00), and it climbed to its high of ₩452,500 at 09:38 — a morning trajectory opposite to the index’s own arc.On the KOSDAQ, Jeju Semiconductor led turnover at ₩274.1bn despite a decline of −7.13%, opening at ₩89,000 and sliding to ₩79,200 before the noon snapshot; Hyundai Movex ranked second at ₩241.2bn with a gain of +9.88%, its session low registered at the open.
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KOSPI closes up +1.46% at 6,912.87 as autos and telecoms lead, while KOSDAQ slips −0.49% to 857.15 on broad selling in chip-equipment names.
On the KOSPI, the sharpest gainers among names with at least ₩100bn in turnover included Bingrae (+22.13%), DIC (+23.43%), Nongshim (+11.81%), and SK Telecom (+8.12%); on the downside, Hanssol Chemical (−8.82%), Kumho Construction (−6.19%), and Seonil Electric (−5.53%) led declines — a pattern where food/consumer names advanced sharply while power-grid and construction stocks retreated.On the KOSDAQ, Jaeyoung Solutec (+29.93%), Clio (+27.22%), iRobotics (+23.97%), Alt (+22.41%), and Hallra Cast (+18.56%) topped the advance list, while MK Electron (−12.70%), AJU IB Investment (−11.78%), and Jeju Semiconductor (−7.13%) were among the sharper declines — with chip-equipment names Wonik IPS (−6.58%), Yusung Technology (−6.37%), and Jusung Engineering (−3.18%) also under pressure.