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15 stories tagged “kosdaq”, each from official Korean data with its source and timestamp.
KOSDAQ fell 3.26% on Monday. All 1,824 KOSDAQ listings together are worth less than half of SK hynix
KOSDAQ closed at 727.21, a three-month low. On Friday its 1,824 listings were worth 425.8 trillion won; SK hynix alone was 932.8 trillion. KOSDAQ's share of trading fell from 35.6% to 25.1% in October.
The KOSPI fell 19% in October. Korea's entertainment index rose 6.9%
From 30 September to 22 October the KOSPI dropped from 6,838 to 5,534. Over the same sessions the KOSPI entertainment & culture index went up from 789.29 to 843.55, and its KOSDAQ twin rose 2.4% while the KOSDAQ fell 10.7%.
KOSPI is up 31% this year. KOSDAQ is down 17%. The split runs through healthcare
On 22 October the KOSPI was 31.3% above its 2025 close and the KOSDAQ 17.4% below it. Of 53 KOSPI-series indices, 34 are up for the year; of 39 KOSDAQ-series indices, 7. KOSDAQ 150 Healthcare is down 40.9%.
49.0% on KOSPI, 31.9% on KOSDAQ — and on KONEX we cannot count at all
Split Korea's five-year profit streaks by listing board and the market-wide 37.7% comes apart. KONEX gets no figure: only 6 of its 107 companies filed annual accounts in all five years.
More Than Half of Korea's Material Filings Are Corrections of Earlier Ones
Of 816 material disclosures Korean listed companies filed in 28 days, 430 — 52.7% — are re-filings marked as corrections. Convertible bonds 72%, capital raises 65%, supply contracts 60%. Not advice.
A Company Paid a 9.6% Premium to Cancel a Convertible Bond It Had Sold Three Months Earlier
Emgen Solution sold a private convertible bond in June 2026. In September it bought the whole issue back for 9.6% over face value -- canceling 8.3% worth of potential dilution, 32 months before the bond was due.
Korea's short-margin balance has fallen two-thirds from its 2023 peak
The balance of shares borrowed for short-margin trading stood at 31.3 billion won on September 2, 2026 — down 43.1 percent from a year earlier and less than a third of its February 2023 high of 94.0 billion won.
10 Korean-listed companies filed delisting-risk disclosures on one day
DART recorded delisting-risk disclosures from ten separately listed companies on September 18 — zero on any other day this week. We could not confirm why they clustered on this date.
Korea's margin debt hit a record. It moved to KOSPI.
Korea's margin loan balance hit a record ₩38.6 trillion on 24 June 2026, up 50% year-on-year. KOSDAQ's share fell from 48% in 2021 to 21% today — this year's leverage moved into large-cap KOSPI, not the smaller, speculative market.
Korea lists 2,767 stock lines — fewer than that are actual companies
Korea's stock market has 2,767 stock lines — but 115 are preferred shares (one company, two tickers) and 134 didn't trade today. The company count is lower.
One in twenty listed Korean stocks didn't trade a single share
Korea's market is a barbell. On both days we've measured, two stocks were about half of all trading while roughly one in twenty listed issues traded nothing at all. A crowded head, a silent tail. Not advice.
Korea's stock market and trade: the top four are half of everything
How concentrated is the Korean stock market? Rank Korea's stocks, or its export and import partners, and the top four are about half every time — every Gini past 0.9. KOSPI, KOSDAQ and trade, one pattern. Not advice.
Four stocks are half of Korea's entire stock market
Of 2,764 listed companies, the four biggest are 52% of all market value and the top ten are 60%. Samsung alone is a quarter. Meanwhile 1,822 KOSDAQ names together are just 7%. Korea's market is a few giants and a very long tail. Not advice.
KOSDAQ is 7% of the market's value but 16% of its trading
Value and trading are two different maps. KOSDAQ holds 7% of Korea's market cap yet did 16% of one day's trading — its shares turn over more than twice as fast as KOSPI's. And 137 listed companies didn't trade at all. Not advice.
Five Korean firms filed share buybacks today. Only one is cancelling the shares.
Buyback plans worth up to about 18 billion won reached the regulator on a single day. But the step that actually shrinks the share count — cancellation — appears in just one of them, Fims. The rest keep the stock in the drawer. Not advice.