KOSPI ^KS11

Index · South Korea · home metro · compare against everything else

7,328 tracked days · 1996-12-11 to 2026-09-17 · refreshed daily

Latest
6,724
2026-09-17
1-year
+97.0%
from 3,413
5-year
+114%
from 3,141 in 2021
Annualised
+7.9%
+5.2% real · a year since 1996
2026-09-17 — 6,724 · +854.1% from 1996
500.01,0002,0005,00019962004201120192026

Record high 9,115 on 2026-06-22; lowest close 280.0 on 1998-06-16. Since 1996 the level is up 9.5× in points; in 2025 money it is 4.6×, or +5.2% a year after inflation.

About this series

Closing levels, one point per trading day. Yahoo Finance chart API. Index levels are price returns in local currency, so they exclude dividends and are not adjusted for exchange rates: a chart of the Nikkei against the S&P compares two different things in two different currencies. They are quoted nominally by default, with a Real toggle that deflates by South Korea CPI (World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL, US series extended to 1913 from the BLS via FRED) and expresses the whole history in 2025 money. Inflation data is annual, so the deflator is interpolated between mid-year points, and the real view begins in 1960, where that CPI record starts. None of this is investment advice; all of it is geography with a time axis.