{"id":14604,"date":"2026-05-13T00:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T00:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/14604\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T00:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T00:51:14","slug":"kospi-falls-below-7500-early-on-may-13-after-us-inflation-shock-samsung-electronics-sk-hynix-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/14604\/","title":{"rendered":"Kospi Falls Below 7,500 Early on May 13 After US Inflation Shock; Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix Drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US inflation shock sent the Kospi index down into the 7,400 range early in the session, dampening investor sentiment.<br \/>\nHeavyweight semiconductor shares including Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix weakened as the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index tumbled.<br \/>\nForeign investors and institutions were net sellers in both the main board and the Kosdaq market, while retail investors remained net buyers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_feedSummaryContent-module-scss-module__B3djzW__newsAnalyticsTitle\">Forecast Trend Report by Period<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778570951_681_Indicator.png\" alt=\"Loading Indicator\" data-hide-on-theme=\"light\" class=\"h-full w-full object-cover\" style=\"animation:var(--animate-spin)\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778570951_925_Indicator-dark.png\" alt=\"Loading Indicator\" data-hide-on-theme=\"dark\" class=\"h-full w-full object-cover\" style=\"animation:var(--animate-spin)\"\/>See more mid- to long-term trend analysisInflation fears spread across the broader market<br \/>\nChip heavyweights fall as US tech stocks weaken<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7e019d09-e256-4482-bcb9-164ac6e641ab.webp\" alt=\"Photo: Shutterstock\" width=\"646\" role=\"presentation\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Photo: Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s Kospi fell for a second straight session on May 13, sliding into the 7,400 range early in the day. Investor sentiment weakened after a US inflation shock sparked a sharp selloff in technology shares.<\/p>\n<p>As of 9:08 a.m., the Kospi was down 154.94 points, or 2.03%, at 7,488.21. The index opened 1.67% lower and extended its losses.<\/p>\n<p>Inflation concerns spread across the broader market. US consumer prices rose 3.8% in April from a year earlier, Labor Department data showed. That was slightly above market expectations of 3.7% and marked the fastest increase since May 2023. Analysts said the impact of the war between the US and Iran was starting to feed into consumer prices.<\/p>\n<p>Major US stock indexes finished mixed as inflation worries intensified. Semiconductor shares, which had led the recent rally, posted steep losses. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell 3.01%.<\/p>\n<p>On the Kospi, foreign investors were net sellers of 1.237 trillion won. Retail investors and institutions were net buyers of 1.0443 trillion won and 157.4 billion won, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Most large-cap Kospi stocks traded lower. Samsung Electronics fell 4.84% and SK Hynix dropped 1.74%. Doosan Enerbility lost 3.58%, SK Square fell 1.95%, LG Energy Solution slipped 1.47%, Samsung Electro-Mechanics declined 1.04%, Samsung Biologics fell 0.35% and Hanwha Aerospace lost 0.23%. Hyundai Motor rose 2.32% and HD Hyundai Heavy Industries gained 1.56%.<\/p>\n<p>The Kosdaq also fell. As of that time, the index was down 7.41 points, or 0.63%, at 1,171.88. In the Kosdaq market, foreign investors and institutions were net sellers of 112 billion won and 1.8 billion won, respectively. Retail investors were net buyers of 125.7 billion won.<\/p>\n<p>The won opened lower against the dollar. In Seoul foreign-exchange trading, the won-dollar rate opened at 1,493.10 won per dollar, up 2.20 won from the previous session.<\/p>\n<p>Lee Su, Hankyung.com reporter 2su@hankyung.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A US inflation shock sent the Kospi index down into the 7,400 range early in the session, dampening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[530,524,534,522,523,529,528,526,525,527,533,531,241,275,532],"class_list":{"0":"post-14604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sk-hynix","8":"tag-bitcoin","9":"tag-bitcoincommunity","10":"tag-blockchain","11":"tag-bloomingbit","12":"tag-coincommunity","13":"tag-coininfo","14":"tag-coininvest","15":"tag-coinnews","16":"tag-coinreview","17":"tag-coinstats","18":"tag-cryptocurrency","19":"tag-ethereum","20":"tag-sk","21":"tag-sk-hynix","22":"tag-solana"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}