{"id":15868,"date":"2026-05-13T23:11:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/15868\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T23:11:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:11:04","slug":"market-cap-of-korean-listed-companies-surpasses-4-08-tril-for-1st-time-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/15868\/","title":{"rendered":"Market cap of Korean-listed companies surpasses $4.08 tril. for 1st time: data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a45412b4-efaa-4fb3-ab8d-aabdc7c0bb4d.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1300; width: 100%\" alt=\"Traders work inside the dealing room of Hana Bank in central Seoul, Monday. Yonhap\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Traders work inside the dealing room of Hana Bank in central Seoul, Monday. Yonhap<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The total market capitalization of companies listed on the local stock market surpassed 6,000 trillion won ($4.08 trillion) for the first time on Monday, boosted by anticipation for the semiconductor sector, industry data showed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The combined market capitalization of companies listed on the country&#8217;s three stock bourses stood at 6,047.9 trillion won as of early Monday morning, according to the data from the Korea Exchange (KRX), Korea&#8217;s main bourse operator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The three markets are the benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), the secondary KOSDAQ and the KONEX market for small and medium-sized enterprises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Korea&#8217;s major stock gauges were on a bullish run since the start of April amid anticipation for the country&#8217;s top chipmaking giants. The KOSPI advanced over 28 percent from April 1 to Friday, while the smaller KOSDAQ rose 14.4 percent during the same period, according to data from Yonhap Infomax, the financial arm of Yonhap News Agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Early this month, the country&#8217;s major semiconductor firms \u2014 Samsung Electronics and SK hynix \u2014 each posted record first-quarter earnings, boosted by high demand for semiconductors amid a global boom in artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traders work inside the dealing room of Hana Bank in central Seoul, Monday. Yonhap The total market capitalization&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[457],"tags":[337,864],"class_list":{"0":"post-15868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-korea-exchange","8":"tag-korea-exchange","9":"tag-krx"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15868","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=15868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}