It was the world’s hottest stock market. Now South Korea has entered bear territory.
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Jules Rimmer
3h agoen
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The cumulative impact of several different narratives – competition, sustainability, excessive leverage, international outflows- has sapped the Korean market of its upward mobility since clocking up a record high in June.
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