Daily Woody Economy | Weekly Review · Jul 13–17, 2026 — a week that repriced the chip trade, KOSPI −8.77%
WEEKLY REVIEW Daily Woody Economy A digital economy paper by editor Woody · the week in review and ahead Jul 13–17, 2026 (Mon–Fri) · Weekly No. 3 This Week at a Glance This week the world repriced the trade it has built around artificial intelligence and the chips that run it. Korea — the beating heart of that trade — swung hardest of all. The KOSPI fell 8.95% on Monday, tripping the year’s seventh circuit breaker, rebounded 6.24% on Wednesday, then dropped another 6.37% on Thursday to close the week down 8.77%. In the same five days, TSMC posted its largest quarterly profit on record, and Korea logged its highest-ever chip exports for the first ten days of July. The Global Read · Why It Matters Beyond Korea For readers outside Korea, this was not a local scare. Korea is where the AI supply chain gets priced in real time: Samsung and SK hynix m...