Foreign Flow Watch: Foreign Selling Fell 90%, the KOSPI Fell Anyway — Week of October 19, 2026
Foreign investors net sold $0.80bn of Korean stocks over the five sessions of 19–23 October 2026. Over 12–16 October they
Foreign Flow Watch is our weekly read on where overseas money is moving in Korean stocks — net foreign buying and selling on the KRX, by sector and by stock, straight from official exchange data, with the DART filings behind the biggest moves. Sources: KRX/Naver foreign-flow data and DART regulatory filings, compiled every week. Browse the latest issues below.
Foreign investors net sold $0.80bn of Korean stocks over the five sessions of 19–23 October 2026. Over 12–16 October they
Foreigners sold $7.97bn of Korean stock over five sessions — $1.59bn a session, almost exactly the pace they sold at
Last week we wrote that about $1.21bn a session of corporate buying was about to stop in Samsung Electronics and
For thirty trading sessions, a single unnamed buyer has absorbed almost everything foreigners and retail investors sold in Samsung Electronics
Foreign Flow Watch is a weekly count, not a forecast. Every window in this issue is defined in trading sessions,
Korea traded for three days this week and then shut for five. In those three sessions the KOSPI rose 2.71%
Foreigners sold $6.02bn of Korean shares in five sessions this week. The KOSPI finished the week down 0.23%. Those two
The KOSPI rose 3.33% this week, and 81.1% of that gain came from two stocks. Foreigners sold $2.05bn of those
Foreigners sold $1.72bn of Korean equities in five sessions, and 69% of that net came out of exactly two stocks.
Foreigners sold $5.1bn of Samsung Electronics and SK hynix in five sessions. Someone bought $5.76bn of them. It was not