KOSPI · December 29, 2022
The last days of the year, when selling has its own reasons
-1.93%
single-day change vs previous close
Part of a longer stretch
Two months of slipping into year end
near the end of it · 2022-11-11 → 2023-01-03, -10.65% over the whole period
What happened that day?
- The KOSPI fell 1.93% on the day, in the last sessions of 2022
- **No single cause for that day has been pinned down.** What is established is that the calendar itself tilts toward selling here
- Two things run only at year-end in Korea. Prices adjust as the right to that year's dividend lapses, and some investors sell to get under the holding threshold that decides how they are taxed
- The backdrop of 2022 sat underneath all of it — a year in which US rates had more than quadrupled
- The index was pushed down hard over these two months and changed direction on the first trading day of the new year
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.