{"id":43568,"date":"2025-02-03T08:51:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T03:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/?p=43568"},"modified":"2025-02-03T08:51:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T03:21:33","slug":"asian-markets-kospi-drops-3-04-as-market-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/east-asia\/south-korea\/asian-markets-kospi-drops-3-04-as-market-opens\/43568\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian markets: KOSPI drops 3.04% as market opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) sharply declined by <strong>3.04%<\/strong> at the market open on Monday, February 3rd, 2025, at 12:15 p.m. KST. The index fell by <strong>76.63 points<\/strong>, reaching <strong>2,440.75 KRW,<\/strong> compared to its previous close of <strong>2,517.38 KRW<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Opening at <strong>2,468.74 KRW<\/strong>, KOSPI quickly slid to a low of <strong>2,437.61 KRW<\/strong> within the day\u2019s early trading range of <strong>2,437.61 \u2013 2,468.74 KRW<\/strong>. The decline reflects broad-based weakness, with major stocks such as Samsung Electronics and Hyundai Motor likely influencing the movement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About KOSPI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a capitalization-weighted index, KOSPI tracks all common shares on the Korea Exchange, serving as a key indicator of South Korea\u2019s stock market performance. Investors will be closely monitoring the session for further fluctuations and potential recovery.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Disclaimer:<\/strong> This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) sharply declined by 3.04% at the market open on Monday, February 3rd, 2025,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":24013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-korea"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43569,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43568\/revisions\/43569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}