Foreign Investors Sell 199.1 Trillion Won of Korean Stocks in 2025

The scale of foreign outflows from KOSPI, concentrated in Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, points to a market where the memory-chip complex is the primary channel for global risk reduction rather than a broad-based Korea story. That matters because it leaves the index hostage to semiconductor sentiment and to the pace at which foreign selling persists, even as the data window is already unusually long. Whether the selling broadens beyond those two names, or stays confined to them, is the open question.