[fn Afternoon Market] KOSPI recovers to 3170 with foreign buying

[Financial News] KOSPI recovered to 3170 on the 2nd due to strong foreign buying. 
As of 2:39 PM today, KOSPI is trading at 3170.19, up 27.26p (0.87%) from the previous trading day. KOSPI started at 3155.73, up 2.80p (0.41%) from the previous trading day.
In the domestic stock market, while individuals and institutions are selling 264.4 billion won and 58.3 billion won worth of stocks respectively, foreigners are buying 236.6 billion won worth. 
Among the top 14 stocks by market capitalization, except for Hyundai Motor (-0.45%) and LG Energy Solution (-0.14%), all are strong.
Naver (4.87%), Hanwha Ocean (4.73%), Samsung Electronics (2.37%), and Hanwha Aerospace (2.07%) are showing strength in that order. The KOSDAQ index is trading at 792.74, up 7.74p (0.99%) from the previous trading day. The index started trading at 789.35, up 4.35p (0.55%) from the previous trading day.

khj91@fnnews.com Hyun-jung Kim Reporter