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The won-dollar rate rose 22.3 won over the week to 1,356.6 on November 6, as a sharp Korean stock-market selloff and foreign equity outflows increased demand for dollars. Concerns that restrictions on U.S. data-center construction could weaken AI and semiconductor demand contributed to market volatility, while analysts expected the won’s weakness to be limited in duration.
Equity outflows and dollar-buying pressure can push USD/KRW higher and make imported feed and energy more expensive in won; semiconductor export conversions and South Korea’s current-account surplus could offset some of that pressure.
news.mtn.co.krNov 6, 2026Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
