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KOSPI slumped 2.6%

Strota Newsroom · Global Markets · session of 2026-10-10 · market close

KOSPI closed at 6,625.93 on 2026-10-08, slumped 2.6% on the session and is +57.2% year-to-date. Here is what the market data shows.

The KOSPI closed down 2.62% at 6625.93 on 2026-10-08, its most recent session in the pack. The fall leaves South Korea's benchmark 27.3% below its 52-week high of 9114.55, though it remains 86.03% above its 52-week low of 3561.81.

The index is down 3.1% over the past week, 0.92% over the month and 17.7% over three months, even as it holds a 57.23% gain so far this year. It stands below its 50-day moving average of 6691.88 but above its 200-day moving average of 6364.73. A moving average is the average closing level over the stated number of sessions; dropping under the 50-day one while staying above the 200-day one is read as a shorter-term pullback inside a longer uptrend.

Peer markets carry different dates. The US benchmarks rose on 2026-10-09, with the S&P 500 up 0.59%, the Nasdaq 0.64% and the Dow 0.83%. Europe and much of Asia fell on 2026-10-08: the FTSE 100 eased 0.16%, the DAX 1.18%, the CAC 40 0.51% and the Euro Stoxx 50 0.87%, while the Nikkei fell 1.42%, the Hang Seng 1.43%, the Shanghai index 0.79% and the TAIEX 0.99%. India's Sensex lost 1.44% and the Nifty 50 1.64%, also on 2026-10-08. The ASX 200 was the outlier, up 0.64% on 2026-10-09.

Headlines offered context rather than a settled cause. TradingView asked why the KOSPI was plunging on Oct. 6, KED Global reported that fund managers had cut Kospi targets to 7,700, and Businesskorea described the index battling to hold above 6,900. None of the pack's headlines is dated to the 2026-10-08 session itself, and the pack records no fresh headlines for that day.

The evidence shows a sharp single-session fall and where the index sits in its range. It does not establish what drove the drop.

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How this article was made: Strota assembled the market data above (the index's price history, same-session peer-market moves and public headlines) and an AI model wrote the narrative strictly from that evidence — it is not permitted to add outside facts or numbers. Every figure comes from the underlying market/public data.