South Korea's import prices rose 1.7% in September, the first rise in four months, the Bank of Korea said, as Dubai crude jumped 28.1% to $113.71 a barrel. In won terms the oil rise was about 23.8%, and export prices fell 0.8%, partly on the same stronger currency.
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Exporters' dollar sales hold the won to a 0.75% slide on a 5.46% Kospi plunge
Korea's won weakened 0.75% to 1,345.1 per dollar on a day foreign investors sold more than 4.5 trillion won of Kospi shares in a 5.46% fall. Exporters' dollar sales blunted the demand for dollars, Korea JoongAng Daily reported, so a short-won hedge recovered little of the equity loss.
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Korea's overnight FX session trades $2.8 billion a day, 4.3% of second-quarter derivatives volume
South Korea's round-the-clock FX market traded $111.54 billion in forwards and swaps overnight from July 6 to Aug. 31, about $2.8 billion a day. Sedaily reports longer hours alone will not lift the won without deeper liquidity and settlement.
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Korean exporters' dollar sales lifted the won to 1,335.1 per dollar at the Oct. 12 close, 7.7 won stronger on the day and near a two-year high. Foreigners sold a net 2.01 trillion won of shares that day, and the two reports give different intraday highs.
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Koreans buying yen are paying the least in about 18 years, as 100 yen fell into the mid-800s of won this week from about 950 in early summer. Most of the drop is the won's chip-export rally against the dollar, Korea Times figures show, so the saving depends on that boom lasting.
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South Korea's won rose for a fifth straight session to 1,338.5 per dollar on Oct. 8 even as foreigners sold about 2 trillion won of Korean shares. Seoul Economic Daily credits exporters converting chip-export dollars, so the rally holds only as long as that selling outweighs a firmer greenback.
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KOSPI wins back three-quarters of a 1.11% opening drop in its first 15 minutes
KOSPI opened 1.11% lower on Wednesday despite overnight gains on Wall Street, then cut the loss to 0.27% by 9:15 a.m. Once the index was back near flat, the clearer signal from the morning was how far apart its large caps moved.
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Foreign investors sold a net 1.75 trillion won of Korean shares on Tuesday as the KOSPI fell 0.89% to 6,941.39. Chipmakers led a drop that left breadth near even, so global bond yields are steering the index until third-quarter earnings give investors company numbers to price.
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Korean overseas property remittances run 7% ahead of 2025's five-year high
South Koreans sent $210.3 million abroad to buy property in the first four months of 2026, nearly 35% of 2025's five-year-high total of $590.5 million. The pace points to a record year, and a Korean tax rule that ignores foreign homes explains it at least as well as the stronger won does.
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Chip dollars beat bond math: the won breaks 1,400 for the first time since October
The won closed at 1,397.7 on the 19th, down 14.1 in a session, even as the U.S. 30-year yield hit its highest since 2007. Exporter flow, not rate differentials, set the price.
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