Foreign investors are “daily net sellers for a continuous 1 month” and are washing out the Korean stock market! But domestic retail investors and institutions are stepping in heavily to buy in, totaling $69 billion.

According to the latest data released today by the macro rating agency The Kobeissi Letter, global foreign capital is selling Korean stocks at an unprecedented and astonishing speed. Foreign investors have been in a state of net selling on every trading day over the past month, with the year-to-date (YTD) net sell amount reaching as high as 75 billion USD; meanwhile, domestic Korean funds are frantically "buying the dip," accumulating a total of 69 billion USD, as the market is staging an epic and extreme game of tug-of-war between foreign and domestic investors.
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South Korea, a key emerging market in Asia, is facing an unprecedented "mass escape" of global capital. According to data disclosed today (8th) on the X platform by the well-known macroeconomic organization The Kobeissi Letter, international investors are in a frenzy of selling Korean stocks at an unprecedented scale.

Global investors are dumping South Korean stocks at an unprecedented pace:

Foreign investors sold -$801 million of KOSPI-listed shares on Monday.

This follows -$10 billion in outflows recorded last week.

Foreign investors have now offloaded South Korean stocks in every trading… pic.twitter.com/dXjpQFrUio

— The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) June 8, 2026

The total escape this year has reached 75 billion USD! Foreign investors have been selling every day for a month straight

Data shows that just on Monday (8th), foreign investors sold an additional 801 million USD worth of Korean KOSPI-listed stocks, and last week, the Korean stock market already recorded an astonishing capital outflow of up to 10 billion USD.

What’s even more startling is that foreign investors have been continuously selling every single trading day over the past month. According to statistics from Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs, this intense selling pressure has caused the total net sell of foreign capital in the Korean stock market this year to skyrocket to an astonishing 75 billion USD.

Domestic retail investors or prophets? Domestic capital is pouring in 69 billion USD in a frantic bottom-fishing spree

However, in the face of the foreign capital retreat, South Korea’s domestic funds are showing a completely different "patriotic diamond hands." Data indicates that domestic retail and institutional investors have aggressively bought in a total of 69 billion USD during the same period this year, almost absorbing the majority of the selling pressure caused by foreign investors.

This extreme data has sparked widespread and heated debate across Wall Street and the global financial community. Market analysis suggests that this reveals a rare divergence of "crazy foreign capital fleeing for safety, while domestic capital is fully loading up." As the global AI chip supply chain and semiconductor sectors experience high-level fluctuations, the question remains: is foreign capital sensing a systemic macro crisis in advance, or can domestic investors successfully defend the market and laugh last? The soon-to-be-historical Korean stock market will soon provide the answer.