00:00three numbers before the open. Kospi fell 5.28%. Samsung Electronics and Skett Hynix lost nearly
00:08193 trillion won in market value in a single day. Foreign investors sold 3.4 trillion won of Kospi
00:15stocks. Let's look at what today's story could mean for the Korean market. It's Friday, November 6th.
00:21Here's what today's story could mean for the Korean market. Kospi closed at 5,383.80 on November 5th.
00:29Down 300 points, or 5.28%. That's the first close below 5,400 since April 3rd. The Kostak Index fell
00:385.11% to 678.41. It's first close in the 600s since July 30th. Here's what the numbers show.
00:47The midterm elections delivered a blue wave, and that set off fears of tighter rules on AI data
00:53centers in the United States. Samsung Electronics closed down 7.57% at 201,501. Skok Hynix dropped
01:029.46% to 1,264,001. Chip equipment stocks were hit too. Foreign investors have now been net sellers
01:11for
01:11five straight sessions. Roughly 70% of their selling in the main market was concentrated in those two
01:17chip makers. Short selling also picked up again in early November, with Samsung's average daily
01:23short volume up 25% from the prior month. Skok Hynix is up 29%. So what does this mean for
01:29investors trying to read the next few sessions? Earlier, we said the market reaction was overdone.
01:35Here's what that actually means for you. Analysts at Shenyang Securities said the sell-off may have gone
01:41too far. But nobody can tell where the bottom is. Merit Securities said demand has not slowed,
01:47and supply may stay tighter than last year through next year. Both point to earnings and the December
01:52Oracle report as the next checkpoints. Both point to earnings and the December Oracle report as the
01:58next checkpoints. For now, the story is sentiment and flows, not a visible drop in orders. Watch
02:04foreign net selling, short volume, and whether big tech actually cuts capital spending. Those three
02:10signals will tell you more than any single headline. That's today's AI Prism. Stock investors. This
02:17episode was produced with AI assistants based on Seoul Economic Daily Reporting. AI Prism is a
02:23won IFRA award-winning series. We'll be back tomorrow.