The KOSPI index, which plunged 8% the previous day, surged 7% on the 9th to reclaim the 8,000 level.

On the morning of the 9th, indexes including KOSPI appear on the dealing room ticker at Hana Bank in Jung District, Seoul. KOSPI opens at 7,697.76, up 213.35 points (2.85%) from the previous session (7,484.41), and KOSDAQ starts trading at 937.69, up 26.30 points (2.89%) from the previous session (911.39). /Courtesy of News1.

As of 1:44 p.m. that day, the KOSPI index was up 545.84 (7.29%) from the previous session at 8,030.25. Starting at 7,600, the index was pushed down to the 7,500 level intraday before crossing the 8,000 mark on bargain hunting.

Institutions are net buyers of more than 800 billion won, lifting the index. Financial investment, where exchange-traded fund (ETF) funds are tallied, is a net buyer of 790 billion won. Foreign investors and individuals are net sellers of about 800 billion won and 50 billion won, respectively.

SK hynix jumped 13%, recovering to 2.16 million won, and Samsung Electronics also surged 8% to trade at 310,000 won. Samsung Electro-Mechanics is up 15%.

Naver and LG Electronics, whose share prices had surged on the effect of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's visit to Korea, are down 9%.

At the same time, the KOSDAQ index was trading at 978.53, up 67.14 (7.37%) from the previous session. While foreign investors and institutions are each net buying close to 200 billion won and 300 billion won, individuals alone are net selling close to 500 billion won.

Alteogen is up 15% after news of obtaining a European patent, while LEENO Industrial and Kolon TissueGene are each surging more than 15%, leading strong gains.

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