Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters View image in fullscreen South Korea’s Kospi index is up 125% this year, driven by a 310% jump in the share price of SK Hynix and a 183% rise in the share price of Samsung. Investors have driven up the value of semiconductor and memory chip manufacturers, whose profits have soared during 2026, at the expense of some large software companies, which have fallen out of favour this year.
Source: The Guardian
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