{"id":139425,"date":"2025-10-23T01:03:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T01:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/139425\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T01:03:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T01:03:57","slug":"seoul-shares-open-sharply-lower-on-profit-taking-after-record-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/139425\/","title":{"rendered":"Seoul shares open sharply lower on profit-taking after record rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/news-p.v1.20251023.9c69f224e1b648309e0805256f55bf12_P1.jpg\" alt=\"An electronic board showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index at a dealing room of the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul on Thursday. (Yonhap)\"\/>     An electronic board showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index at a dealing room of the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul on Thursday. (Yonhap)  <\/p>\n<p>South Korean stocks opened sharply lower Thursday, tracking overnight losses on Wall Street, after a six-day streak of record gains in the local market.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index decreased 49.55 points, or 1.28 percent, to 3,834.13 in the first 15 minutes of choppy trading.<\/p>\n<p>All three major US stock indexes extended their losses Wednesday after disappointing earnings reports. The S&amp;P 500 sank 0.5 percent, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 334 points, and the Nasdaq composite fell 0.9 percent.<\/p>\n<p>In Seoul, large-cap shares fell.<\/p>\n<p>Chip giant Samsung Electronics went down 1.93 percent, and rival SK hynix lost 1.66 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Leading battery maker LG Energy Solution decreased 1.43 percent, and top bio firm Samsung Biologics shed 0.77 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The local currency was trading at 1,433.45 won against the greenback as of 9:15 a.m., down 3.65 won from the previous session&#8217;s close. (Yonhap)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An electronic board showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index at a dealing room of the Hana Bank&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[5402,79,18,19,17,5403,5399,5398,5404,188,5400,5401,5397,5406,5407,5405],"class_list":{"0":"post-139425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-asia-news","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-k-pop","14":"tag-koreaherald","15":"tag-korean-news","16":"tag-kpop","17":"tag-markets","18":"tag-south-korea-news","19":"tag-south-korea-news-in-english","20":"tag-the-korea-herald","21":"tag-5406","22":"tag-5407","23":"tag-5405"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}