Korea Economic Daily

Hong Min-seong, Hankyung.com reporter, mshong@hankyung.com

Hong Min-seong, Hankyung.com reporter, mshong@hankyung.com

Samsung Electronics Common-Share Market Value Tops $1.5 Trillion for First Time South Korea’s Kospi rose above 8,800 during trading on June 1, hitting a record high. Samsung Electronics Co. jumped more than 10% at one point, lifting the market capita

Kosdaq snaps four-session losing streak South Korea’s Kospi climbed above 8,600 early Monday on hopes the US and Iran will reach an agreement to end the war. The benchmark’s market capitalization also moved past 7,000 trillion won. As of 9:13 a.m. on

Kospi has surged more than 100% this year AI and semiconductors have led the rally Calls for 9,000 are growing Some firms now see a path to 10,000 and beyond South Korea’s Kospi has continued its sharp climb this year, and brokerages are rapidly rais

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Chinese overseas subsidiaries added to curbs Rule targets access to Nvidia Blackwell Malaysia and other third-country routes in focus H200 also constrained by China’s own controls The US is moving to stop Chinese companies from using overseas subsidi

Iranian media says Tehran plans to submit its own revisions Trump seeks additional concessions in draft ceasefire MOU Tasnim source says nothing has been finalized Iran says it is also preparing for a no-deal outcome President Donald Trump has sought

Discontent Over Releasing Frozen Iranian Assets Some See Move as Pressure on Mojtaba to Approve President Donald Trump has decided not to approve a draft memorandum of understanding, or MOU, aimed at ending the conflict between the US and Iran. The N

Dedicated chip to power Microsoft Surface and other devices Targeting the fast-growing AI agent market Nvidia and Microsoft will unveil a new artificial intelligence PC at Computex, the IT trade show opening in Taiwan on June 1. Related announcements

“We won’t just distribute money earned from semiconductors” Signals intent to use it as investment capital for the future Koo Yoon-cheol, deputy prime minister and minister of finance and economy, said a substantial share of excess tax revenue genera

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on May 31 it shot down a US MQ-1 drone after it entered Iranian airspace. The claim came as the US and Iran continued talks on a peace proposal even as accusations of limited military clashes persisted. I

‘A matter of industrial survival’ as China-EU trade tensions escalate EU says trade imbalance with China is unsustainable Beijing vows to ‘fight back firmly’ in language echoing past US-China trade clashes Europe moves to block a surge of low-cost Ch

Chip Stocks Face Profit-Taking Test Shanghai Also Watches Manufacturing Data Wall Street this week, from June 1 to June 5, will be watching whether the rally led by artificial intelligence and semiconductor shares can extend. Investors are also focus

Samsung Electronics Takes Top Spot in Automotive Memory Market Share Reaches 40% Last Year Samsung Electronics Co. overtook Micron Technology Inc. for the first time to become the world’s largest supplier in the automotive memory semiconductor market

ETF Assets Enter 500 Trillion-Won Era, Closing In on Kosdaq The net asset value of exchange-traded funds in South Korea has surpassed 500 trillion won, bringing the ETF market closer to the Kosdaq. Data from the Korea Exchange showed ETF net asset va

NH Investment & Securities Sees Kospi in a 7,500-8,600 Range This Week Brokerages expect the Kospi to extend its gains this week, from June 1 to June 5, supported by momentum in artificial intelligence and hopes that the US-Iran conflict will come to

Foreign investors were net sellers of more than 44 trillion won in the Kospi this month, the largest monthly outflow on record. Data from the Korea Exchange on May 31 showed foreign investors were net sellers of 44.715 trillion won worth of Kospi sha

The US government has barred Americans from making any arrangements with Iran to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, whether or not a toll is paid. Bloomberg reported on May 29 that the Treasury Department said in a statement that US persons are prohi

Kim Byung-hwan, chairman of South Korea’s Financial Services Commission, said on May 30 that the government will supply more of its retail National Growth Fund after the product sold out in five business days following its launch. Speaking on YouTube

A senior Iranian official said Tehran has no intention of transferring enriched uranium abroad, underscoring a key sticking point as US-Iran talks to end the conflict enter what media reports describe as their final phase. Ebrahim Azizi, head of the

President Donald Trump, 79, was found to be in generally good health in a routine medical exam, though his physician advised continued weight loss. Weight up 6 kilograms from a year earlier Doctor recommends weight loss CNN and other media outlets re

Koo Yun-cheol, South Korea’s deputy prime minister and finance minister, dismissed concerns that the country’s capital markets are in a bubble, saying such worries surface when innovation efforts are lacking. In a video posted May 30 on YouTube chann

President Donald Trump convened a meeting on a peace agreement with Iran but left without making a decision, the New York Times reported. The newspaper reported on May 29 that the meeting in the White House Situation Room ended without a conclusion.

All three major US stock indexes closed at record highs as optimism over artificial intelligence investment combined with hopes for a peace memorandum of understanding between the US and Iran. On May 29, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.72% to

President Donald Trump said on May 29 he would convene a meeting in the White House Situation Room to make a final decision on ceasefire talks with Iran. The US has been holding backchannel ceasefire negotiations with Iran through mediators including