[Infostock Daily= Reporter Park Hyo-sun] The 1500 line collapsed as the KOSPI plunged 5 percent on 23th.
According to the Korea Exchange, the KOSPI market closed at 1,482.46, down 83.69 points (▼5.34%) from the previous trading day.
The exchange opened its selling sidecars as futures prices plummeted in the KOSPI and KOSDAQ markets shortly after opening.
In the KOSPI market, individual investors net bought KRW 920.7 billion, while foreign investors sold KRW 642.3 billion and institutional investors sold KRW 361.7 billion.
By industry, textile apparel (▼10.9%), retail (▼7.4%), transportation equipment (▼6.9%), and electrical and electronic equipment (▼6.3%) fell sharply.
Most of them fell, including Samsung C&T (▼7.45%), SK Hynix (▼7.22%), Naver (▼7.14%), Samsung Electronics (▼6.39%), LG Household & Health Care (▼3.96%), Hyundai Motor (▼3.09%) and LG Chem (▼1.65%).
However, Celltrion (▲14.75%), Samsung Bio Logics (▲1.40%) and Samsung SDI (▲0.92%) rose.
The KOSDAQ market closed at 443.76, down 23.99 points (▼5.13%), from the previous trading day.
The KOSDAQ index fell 24.24 points (▼5.18%) to 443.51, continuing its sharp decline.
In the KOSDAQ market, individual investors net bought 211.5 billion won.
However, foreign investors net sold 129.7 billion won and institutional investors 95.7 billion won.
By industry, machinery equipment (▼9.3%), semiconductors (▼8.0%), IT parts (▼7.0%), and chemicals (▼6.6%) fell.
Most of them fell, including Hugel (▼11.25%), SK Materials (▼8.42%), CJ ENM (▼7.83%), Pearl Abyss (▼6.41%), Studio Dragon (▼5.28%), HLB (▼3.41%), and KMW (▼0.10%).
Celltrion Pharmaceuticals (▲29.47%), while Celltrion Healthcare (▲6.57%) and Seegene (▲1.18%) also rose.
The won-dollar exchange rate in the Seoul foreign exchange market closed at 1266.5 won per dollar, up 22.43 won (▲1.6%) from the previous trading day.
Rporter Park Hyo-sun hs1351@infostock.co.kr
