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The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index(KOSPI) has broken the eight-thousand mark for the first time in intraday trading, just seven sessions after breaching seven-thousand points.
The KOSPI had jumped 34-point-08 points, or zero-point-43 percent, from the previous session’s closing and stood at eight-thousand-015-point-49 as of 9:20 a.m. Friday.
The main bourse opened down 29-point-66 points, or zero-point-37 percent, from the previous session at seven-thousand-951-point-75, then turned upward to hit eight-thousand-028-point-43 during morning hours.
The index, which set a milestone of breaking four-thousand in intraday trading on October 27, 2025, surpassed five-thousand on January 22 this year, then six-thousand on February 25.
Individual investors are leading the gains with a net purchase of 764 billion won, or around 510 million U.S. dollars, in the wake of continued semiconductor-driven rally on Wall Street.