KOSPI Opens 7% Down After Hot US CPI and AI Doubts Grow
South Korea’s Financial Services Commission held an emergency meeting on Thursday after the KOSPI fell 7.57% and said it was ready to activate contingency plans. The same day, the regulator also met after an exploit campaign breached 16 financial firms, including the Gopax crypto exchange.
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This affects South Korea’s stock market participants, including holders of KOSPI-linked names and the firms that move with it, because the regulator stepped in on Thursday after the index fell sharply. Traders following SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics saw those stocks move lower in the same session, so the halt in normal market calm was visible right away.
Before Thursday, the FSC had already held an earlier emergency meeting after an exploit campaign hit 16 financial firms, including Gopax. In practice, that means the regulator was already in response mode this week, and the same day’s market meeting added another layer of intervention rather than a new type of action.
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What Inflation (US CPI) has done before
| When | What happened | Figure |
|---|---|---|
| 2 months ago | Inflation (US CPI): 336.298 (+2.17) rise | Sep 2026 |
| 3 months ago | Inflation (US CPI): 334.131 (+1.32) rise | Aug 2026 |
| 4 months ago | Inflation (US CPI): 332.813 (+0.25) rise | Jul 2026 |
| 5 months ago | Inflation (US CPI): 332.568 (-1.41) fall | Jun 2026 |
| 6 months ago | Inflation (US CPI): 333.979 (+1.57) rise | May 2026 |
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