KOSPI · October 17, 2000
The Closing Phase of the Bust
-6.77%
single-day change vs previous close
Part of a longer stretch
Korea's dot-com hangover
midway through · 2000-01-04 → 2001-09-17, -55.74% over the whole period
What happened that day?
- 17 October 2000 — KOSPI fell 6.77%, in the final phase of a decline running since January
- By now it was outcomes arriving, not expectations
- Internet companies that promised extraordinary growth at listing had genuinely run out of money; some shut down
- KOSDAQ was hit hardest. With a high share of individual investors, losses passed straight to households
- That opened a path to weaker consumption
- Fell 41.21% from peak. After this the Korean market recovered gradually over several years
Sources
Every figure on this page is recomputed from the original daily closing prices and checked against them at build time. The account of what happened is written from the sources listed above.