Global Market: South Korean stocks fall over 1% as Middle East tensions weigh on risk sentiment

South Korean shares fell over 1% on Thursday as escalating Middle East tensions and attacks near the Strait of Hormuz weighed on investor sentiment. The KOSPI declined 1.37%, with major technology and heavyweight stocks including Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and Samsung BioLogics falling, while foreign investors remained net sellers.

This story was originally reported by Economic Times — Markets. As an automated real-time news aggregator, NewsToolBar provides multi-perspective indexing and AI summarization while directing full readership directly to primary publisher sources.