{"id":1884,"date":"2026-08-18T08:12:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hmcokorea.com\/en\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2026-08-18T08:12:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:12:53","slug":"seoul-shares-end-lower-snapping-5-day-winning-streak-on-profit-taking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hmcokorea.com\/en\/2026\/08\/18\/seoul-shares-end-lower-snapping-5-day-winning-streak-on-profit-taking\/","title":{"rendered":"Seoul shares end lower, snapping 5-day winning streak, on profit-taking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wimg.heraldcorp.com\/news\/cms\/2026\/08\/18\/news-p.v1.20260818.7828c6ef21794982affaf030a17bf979_P1.jpg\" alt=\"An electronic board showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index at a dealing room of the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul on Tuesday. (Yonhap)\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">An electronic board showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index at a dealing room of the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul on Tuesday. (Yonhap)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seoul shares ended lower Tuesday, snapping a five-day winning streak, as investors locked in profits on large-cap stocks amid fading hopes for a deal to end the war between Iran and the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Korean won rose against the US dollar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After opening 2 percent higher, the benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index fell 108.11 points, or 1.55 percent, to close at 6,869.83.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trade volume was moderate at 399.04 million shares worth 29.64 trillion won ($20.9 billion) with decliners outnumbering gainers 679 to 195.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Institutions sold a net 784.9 billion won worth of stocks, while foreigners and retail investors bought a net 91.4 billion won and 731.29 billion won, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overnight, the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 0.51 percent, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite declined 0.32 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oil prices remained elevated, stoking inflation concerns, while hopes for a deal with Iran faded after US President Donald Trump said he was not interested in extending an agreement with Iran that was due to expire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Seoul, large-cap stocks were mixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Market bellwether Samsung Electronics fell 2.19 percent to 268,500 won and top carmaker Hyundai Motor declined 3.97 percent to 435,000 won.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defense giant Hanwha Aerospace dropped 1.21 percent to 1.15 million won and leading steelmaker POSCO Holdings shed 2.84 percent to 324,500 won.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among gainers, Samsung Electronics&#8217; chipmaking rival SK hynix rose 1.03 percent to 1.66 million won and Samyang Foods climbed 5.04 percent to 1.33 million won.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Korean won was quoted at 1,411.8 won against the US dollar at 3:30 p.m., up 1.2 won from the close of the previous stock trading session. (Yonhap)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koreaherald.com\/article\/10844307\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.koreaherald.com\/article\/10844307\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.koreaherald.com\/article\/10844307<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul shares ended lower Tuesday, snapping a five-day winning streak, as investors locked in profits on large-cap stocks amid fading hopes for a deal to end the war between Iran and the United States. The Korean won rose against the US dollar. After opening 2 percent higher, the benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index fell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hmcokorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hmcokorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hmcokorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hmcokorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hmcokorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hmcokorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1886,"href":"https:\/\/hmcokorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions\/1886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hmcokorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hmcokorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hmcokorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hmcokorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}