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South Korean equities rallied Thursday, carrying the benchmark Kospi index into a technical bull market.
The full reversal from bear-market territory completed in just over a month, with AI-linked trading cited as the primary catalyst. The classification rests on fixed conventions.
A 20% decline from a recent peak defines a technical bear market; a 20% recovery from the subsequent trough defines a technical bull. The Kospi has now crossed both thresholds in sequence inside a compressed window.
That speed is the part worth examining. Recoveries grounded in improving fundamentals take longer to establish.
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