{"id":1042762,"date":"2026-10-13T08:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T03:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042762"},"modified":"2026-10-13T08:45:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T03:15:49","slug":"once-hot-ai-trade-leaves-korean-stocks-struggling-for-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/13\/once-hot-ai-trade-leaves-korean-stocks-struggling-for-buyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Once-hot AI trade leaves Korean stocks struggling for buyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea spent much of this year as a poster child of the scorching global AI trade. Now, by almost every measure, the $4.3 trillion stock market is rapidly losing relevance with investors. <\/p>\n<p>Turnover has collapsed 70% from its peak in late May, foreigners are retreating at the fastest pace in Asia and local retail investors are also pulling back. The Kospi, the world\u2019s best-performing major equities benchmark in the first half, has since lost 22% to be the worst in the second half while its AI-heavy Taiwanese and US peers set new highs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea spent much of this year as a poster child of the scorching global AI trade. Now, by almost every measure, the $4.3 trillion stock market is rapidly losing relevance with investors. Turnover has collapsed 70% from its peak in late May, foreigners are retreating at the fastest pace in Asia and local retail investors are also pulling back. The Kospi, the world\u2019s best-performing major equities benchmark in the first half, has since lost 22% to be the worst in the second half while its AI-heavy Taiwanese and US peers set new highs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042783,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042762\/revisions\/1042783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}