{"id":151244,"date":"2026-03-06T15:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/?post_type=news&#038;p=151244"},"modified":"2026-03-04T19:10:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T17:10:51","slug":"u-koreyi-stavsya-najbilshyj-obval-rynku-akczij-majzhe-za-20-rokiv","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/news\/u-koreyi-stavsya-najbilshyj-obval-rynku-akczij-majzhe-za-20-rokiv\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea Sees Biggest Stock Market Crash in Nearly 20 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"68\" data-end=\"397\">The stock market in <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">South Korea<\/span><\/span> suffered its sharpest decline on March 4. The <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">KOSPI<\/span><\/span> plunged 12.1% by the end of the session to 5,093.54 points, marking the worst two-day drop since the 2008 financial crisis, according to <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Bloomberg<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"399\" data-end=\"829\">At the start of trading, the index had already fallen more than 8%, triggering an automatic trading halt. Volumes surged amid panic selling. The decline was exacerbated by the index\u2019s high concentration, with nearly half of its capitalization accounted for by a handful of technology companies. Shares of <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Samsung Electronics<\/span><\/span> dropped nearly 12%, while <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">SK Hynix<\/span><\/span> fell about 10%.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"831\" data-end=\"1144\">Additional pressure came from a sharp weakening of the national currency. The South Korean won surpassed 1,500 per U.S. dollar during trading for the first time in 17 years. The <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Bank of Korea<\/span><\/span> said it stands ready to take measures to curb volatility and \u201cherd behavior\u201d among investors.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1146\" data-end=\"1271\">South Korea\u2019s finance minister stated that the sell-off was driven by external shocks rather than domestic economic problems.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1273\" data-end=\"1683\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The market came under pressure amid a sharp rise in oil prices and escalating conflict in <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Iran<\/span><\/span>. Brent futures climbed to nearly $84 per barrel. Daniel Yoo, a market strategist at <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Yuanta Securities<\/span><\/span>, noted that South Korea is heavily dependent on oil prices and vulnerable to their fluctuations. The country is the world\u2019s fourth-largest oil importer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":151245,"menu_order":0,"template":"","newscat":[9],"newstag":[],"issues":[],"class_list":["post-151244","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","newscat-novosti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/151244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"newscat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newscat?post=151244"},{"taxonomy":"newstag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newstag?post=151244"},{"taxonomy":"issues","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issues?post=151244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}