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Today 's (May 5) financial market shook so badly because of Japan' s additional economic retaliation and concerns over trade disputes between the United States and China. So, not only us, but also the Asian stock market, I am worried about the overlap of various negative factors that are not seen to be solved for the time being.

I continue to be reporter Han Seung-koo.

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As soon as the market closes, foreign exchange dealers become more active.

The dollar rate was the highest at 3 years and 5 months.

The anxiety caused by the Korea-Japan conflict also worked, but the influence of the US trade dispute was greater.

There are concerns that China's growth rate will fall, foreign capital will go away, and the Chinese authorities will respond by lowering the value of the yuan.

Korea, which is highly dependent on China, has no choice but to follow the yuan exchange rate. If the won depreciates, foreign investors are likely to sell stock assets such as stocks.

[Seo Jung-hoon / Senior Research Fellow, KEB Hana Bank: It seems that foreign funds have entered the KRW 1120 ~ 1130 KRW. It is a situation that you have to wear a large amount of foreign exchange loss. Now, I can say that both the rate of increase and the level of exchange rate are both deeply concerned.]

Actual foreigners net sold 390 billion won last Friday and 310 billion won today.

The US, China, and Korea and Japan have accumulated anxiety over trade conflicts.

At the Kosdaq, the Ssangyong Clinical Phase 3 clinical trial stopped, and bio-indexes weakened.

[Hwang Se-woon / Researcher, Capital Markets Research Institute] (Most of the KOSDAQ market is dominated by individual investors, but when the investment sentiment breaks down, they are much more likely to collapse.)

The government has held a financial sit - ins meeting this morning, but has not been able to keep the market uneasy.

With no visible signs of recovery for the time being, we expect the volatility of small issues to remain volatile.

(Image coverage: Park Jin-ho, Image editing: Jongwoo Kim)