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Kospi surpasses 8,800 for first time during intraday trading, pushes stock market value past 7 quadrillion won

Published: 01 Jun. 2026, 11:36

A screen in Hana Bank's trading room in central Seoul shows the Kospi opening on June 1. [NEWS1]

The Kospi surpassed 8,800 points for the first time during intraday trading on Monday, driven by gains in Samsung Electronics, LG Group and robotics shares, and pushed the total market value of Korea's stock market past 7 quadrillion won ($4.6 trillion).

The Kospi was at 8,846.45 points as of 11:36 a.m.

The Kospi's market capitalization stood at 7.23 quadrillion won.

Samsung Electronics shares rose 9.62 percent from the previous session as of 11:05 a.m., with investor sentiment improving after the company announced on Friday that it had begun shipping the industry's first 12-layer HBM4E samples, a next-generation high bandwidth memory chip, to major global customers.

Samsung Electronics' market capitalization with its common shares alone reached 2.02 quadrillion won, with the combined total market value, including preferred shares, standing at about 2.2 quadrillion won.

Expectations surrounding a visit by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang lifted robotics shares and those of LG Group affiliates.

On the Kospi market, LG Electronics jumped 29.86 percent, LG CNS 27.68 percent, Doosan Robotics 29.95 percent and LG 23.12 percent, ranking among the day's biggest gainers.

Robot stocks also advanced in the Kosdaq market. Robostar rose by its daily limit of 30 percent. Meanwhile, Robotis gained 26.57 percent, Rainbow Robotics 16.81 percent and Angel Robotics 19.50 percent.

The Kosdaq's market capitalization stood at 586.7 trillion won. According to analysts, expectations for the AI, semiconductor and robot industries are lifting investor sentiment across the broader market.

This article was originally written in Korean and translated by a bilingual reporter with the help of generative AI tools. It was then edited by a native English-speaking editor. All AI-assisted translations are reviewed and refined by our newsroom.
BY JEONG JAE-HONG [[email protected]]