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iShares MSCI South Korea ETF / EWY
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EWY tracks the value of 1 share of the MSCI South Korea ETF. The ETF seeks to track the investment results of an index composed of South Korean equities.
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KOSPI Posts Sharpest Bounce in Weeks After Trump Says Iran War Could End in Two to Three Weeks
Trump told reporters on March 31 that the US could wrap up its Iran operations in two to three weeks without requiring a formal deal, and both Washington and Tehran signaled willingness to end hostilities on the same day. That was enough to snap KOSPI out of its worst month since 2008. The index opened April 1 up 5.5% and kept running, with Samsung gaining 6.3% and SK Hynix adding 7.6% after foreigners had dumped a record 35.9 trillion won of Korean equities in March alone.
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KOSPI Posts Sharpest Bounce in Weeks After Trump Says Iran War Could End in Two to Three Weeks
Trump told reporters on March 31 that the US could wrap up its Iran operations in two to three weeks without requiring a formal deal, and both Washington and Tehran signaled willingness to end hostilities on the same day. That was enough to snap KOSPI out of its worst month since 2008. The index opened April 1 up 5.5% and kept running, with Samsung gaining 6.3% and SK Hynix adding 7.6% after foreigners had dumped a record 35.9 trillion won of Korean equities in March alone.
Google's TurboQuant Paper Triggers a Memory Chip Rout — and EWY Takes the Hit
Google Research published TurboQuant on March 25, claiming its new compression algorithm can cut AI inference memory requirements by six times. That was enough to send Samsung Electronics down 4.71% and SK Hynix down 6.23% in Seoul, dragging the KOSPI to a 3.22% loss and hammering EWY, which carries over 42% weight in those two chipmakers alone. Foreign investors net sold 3.1 trillion won of Korean equities on the session as collapsed US-Iran peace talks added a second layer of risk-off sentiment.
How to Trade iShares MSCI South Korea ETF (EWY) on Hyperliquid
EWY is BlackRock's flagship South Korea equity ETF, tracking the MSCI Korea 25/50 Index across 85 large- and mid-cap Korean stocks. It is now available as a HIP-3 perpetual futures contract on Hyperliquid, giving traders 24/7 leveraged access to one of the most volatile and momentum-driven country ETFs in the world. With nearly half its weight in Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, EWY is effectively a concentrated bet on the global AI memory chip cycle wrapped in a single-country package.
EWY Rips Off Circuit-Breaker Lows as Saudi Spot Crude Eases Oil Panic
South Korea's benchmark Kospi triggered its second circuit breaker in four sessions on Monday as oil topped $110 a barrel amid the escalating US-Israel-Iran conflict and near-closure of the Strait of Hormuz. EWY traded as low as $119.55 intraday before reversing sharply, recovering more than 11% from the session low to reclaim $133 after Saudi Aramco moved roughly 4.6 million barrels of crude onto spot markets and Korean retail investors bought an estimated 4.6 trillion won during the panic.
EWY Plunges as KOSPI Posts Worst Day Ever After Iran Strikes Qatar LNG Hub
The iShares MSCI South Korea ETF dropped over 10% in 22 hours on Hyperliquid after South Korea's KOSPI benchmark [posted its worst single-day crash in history](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/south-korea-kospi-just-had-133506380.html) — a 12% plunge driven by Iran's drone strike on Qatar's Ras Laffan LNG complex and the cascading energy crisis that followed. At $125.10 on Hyperliquid's perp market, EWY is reflecting a market that just watched a fifth of the world's LNG supply go offline in a region it depends on for survival.
Donghak Ants Storm Back: EWY Surges 9% as KOSPI Posts Biggest Rebound Since 2008
EWY ripped 9.26% over 21 hours on Hyperliquid, tracking what turned out to be the [largest single-day point gain in KOSPI history](https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026/03/05/Seoul-shares-rebound-nearly-10-pct-after-worst-ever-drop-won-rises/9201772707417/). The KOSPI surged 9.63% on March 5, closing at 5,583.90 — just one day after crashing 12.1% in what the Korean press is calling [Black Wednesday](https://markets.financialcontent.com/stocks/article/marketminute-2026-3-4-black-wednesday-in-seoul-kospi-plummets-12-as-hormuz-crisis-shakes-global-markets). South Korean retail investors — the so-called Donghak Ants — showed up in force to buy the dip while foreign institutions kept dumping.
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