KOSPI · April 7, 2025
Tariff day in Seoul
-5.57%
single-day change vs previous close
Part of a longer stretch
Nine months of giving it back
near the end of it · 2024-07-11 → 2025-04-09, -20.67% over the whole period
What happened that day?
- On 7 April 2025 the KOSPI fell 5.57% in a single day
- It came right after the US announced broad tariffs across trading partners
- Korea depends heavily on exports and the US is a major market, so the impact was direct
- Cars and semiconductors, with their large US shares, fell hardest
- Tariffs on China also shook the structure where Korea sells components into Chinese manufacturing
- A tariff pause days later produced the rebound
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.