KOSPI Touches 5,400, Turns Lower, Fluctuates Around Flatline

Opened higher but turned lower

The KOSPI opened slightly higher, but after touching 5,400, it turned lower and has been fluctuating around the flatline.

At around 9:11 a.m. on Nov. 12, the KOSPI was trading at 5,328.30 on the Korea Exchange, down 0.88% from the previous session. It opened at 5,385.94, up 0.20% from the previous session, and rose as high as 5,419.88 before foreign and institutional selling reversed its course.

The domestic stock market is displayed on a screen in the dealing room at Hana Bank headquarters in Jung-gu, Seoul, on Nov. 12, as the KOSPI opened at 5,385.94, up 10.58 points (0.20%) from the previous session. Nov. 12, 2026. Photo by Kim Hyunmin

Individual investors were buying 490.7 billion won worth of KOSPI shares, while foreign investors and institutions were net sellers of 399.5 billion won and 123.7 billion won, respectively.

Most sectors were lower, including IT services, down 1.91%; machinery and equipment, down 1.84%; chemicals, down 1.32%; real estate, down 1.19%; metals, down 1.31%; insurance, down 1.16%; construction, down 0.93%; securities, down 0.75%; and financials, down 1.04%.

Large-cap stocks were fluctuating between slight gains and slight losses. Samsung Electronics was up 0.8%, Samsung Electro-Mechanics 0.1%, KB Financial Group 0.4%, and Celltrion 0.9%. SK hynix was down 0.6%, SK Square 1.2%, LG Energy Solution 2.0%, Samsung Biologics 1.6%, Hyundai Motor 1.2%, and Samsung Life Insurance 0.4%.

At the same time, the KOSDAQ was trading at 694.85, down 1.45% from the previous session. As in the KOSPI, foreign investors and institutions were selling, with net sales of 104.8 billion won and 19.7 billion won, respectively, weighing on the index. Individual investors were buying 125.3 billion won worth of shares.

Among large-cap stocks, Alteogen was down 4.0%, EcoPro 4.6%, EcoPro BM 4.7%, Jusung Engineering 0.9%, Rainbow Robotics 0.2%, EO Technics 0.2%, Sam Chun Dang Pharm 0.1%, Leeno Industrial 0.1%, and HLB 1.0%. SIMMTECH was up 2.8%.

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