Hynix Surges More Than 5% On 'Jensen Hwang-Choi Tae-won Meeting'

Shares of SK Hynix rose more than 5% on the back of foreign net purchases as news of the meeting between Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and SK Chairman Chey Tae-won was announced.

Shares of SK Hynix, which surpassed 200,000 won at the opening, continued to soar during the day before closing up 5.3 percent at 205,000 won.

On the other hand, Samsung Electronics, which soared more than 3 percent yesterday, closed down 2.1 percent at 56,100 won.

The KOSPI rose 0.03 percent to close at 2,521.9 after being mixed amid foreign net buying and institutional net selling, and the tech-heavy KOSDAQ index rose 0.54 percent to 723.52, amid foreign net selling and individual net buying.

At the Seoul foreign exchange market, the won-dollar exchange rate stood at 1,460.5 won as of 3:30 p.m.

The won-dollar exchange rate rose to 1,4644.5 won early this morning, but has since fallen slightly.