By Isaac • July 18, 2026 3:07 pm •
Bitcoin spent years teaching investors to expect the impossible from a price chart.
Then South Korea’s stock market took the lesson personally.
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Since the beginning of June, the benchmark KOSPI index has posted larger average daily swings than Bitcoin, according to one recent calculation. A separate 12-month measure also put the Korean equity index above the world’s largest cryptocurrency.
The reversal is real under those specific windows.
It is also easy to misuse.
Bitcoin has not become a low-risk asset. South Korea’s stock market did not suddenly turn into crypto.
Two different markets reached the same violent neighborhood through different routes.
KOSPI arrived there through extreme semiconductor concentration, leveraged products, margin pressure and a rally that
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