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How Korea Answered a Crash With Debt Relief

2026-08-272026-08-22 by Mr. Gat

Card reading BORROWERS: who Korea's joint market review meeting of August 21, 2026 was actually for, after the KOSPI fell 5.80 percent on August 19. No stock-market measure was announced; the plan was debt relief for households and small business.

Korean stocks fell 5.80% on Wednesday. A sell sidecar tripped six minutes after the open, foreign investors sold roughly ₩3.5 trillion (about US$2.5 billion), and the index closed at 6,471.17. Two days later, on Friday morning at eight o’clock, the Deputy Prime Minister sat down with the heads of the financial regulators and the central … Read more

−4.5%, +3.6%, +0.7%, +4.4%, −5.7%: Four of Five Sessions Moved More Than 3.5% — and Foreigners Bought ₩5.6tn Anyway

2026-08-152026-07-26 by Mr. Gat

Korea’s market whipsawed all week: down 4.46% Monday, up 4.40% Thursday to reclaim 7,000 for the first time in six sessions, then down 5.72% Friday.

The ‘Next Japan Trade’ Paradox: Korea Copied Japan’s Playbook, Hard-Coded It Into Law — and Foreigners Still Sold $97 Billion

2026-08-272026-07-04 by Mr. Gat

Korea copied Japan’s governance-reform playbook, then went further and wrote it into law. So why did foreign investors dump a record ₩148 trillion in H1…

I Bought Samsung at 53,000 Won. Two Years Later It Was Under 50,000.

2026-08-152026-06-16 by Mr. Gat

A Korean retail investor’s true story of holding Samsung through a two-year slump — and the HBM truth the English headlines missed.