A drop of 9.9% per day is a record for 2026. Korean indices fell in March and June, but those falls were more modest. Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP On June 23, the South Korean KOSPI fell by almost 10%. Trading had to be stopped twice in one day. Samsung and SK Hynix lost more than 12%. Indices also fell in other Asian countries, and this process was started by Elon Musk’s unrestrained plans, which the market could not digest.

Bernard Guetta, Member of the European Parliament Photo by MARTIN BERTRAND / HANS LUCAS / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP On Tuesday, the Ukrainian army destroyed a railway bridge across the North Crimean Canal with drone strikes, a former chalk plant in Alekseevka, Belgorod region was hit, a missile threat regime was declared in the Moscow, Astrakhan, Penza, Volgograd, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara and Ulyanovsk regions, as well as in Tatarstan, Mordovia and Chuvashia.