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2026-05-27 12:48:47
[South Korea's KOSPI surges 100% this year, surpassing the dot-com bubble era, but the market says demand structure has changed] (1) South Korea's KOSPI index has risen 100% this year, surging from 5,000 points to 8,000 points, driven by SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics, exceeding the historical surge before the dot-com bubble and during the industrial boom of the late 1980s. (2) Before the year is even halfway over, KOSPI's performance is comparable to the 102% rise of the Nasdaq 100 index in 1999 (before the dot-com bubble burst). (3) However, few market observers have issued warnings. They believe that global demand for memory chips is undergoing a structural change—shifting from cyclical fluctuations to a more sustainable growth trend.
