[Foreign Capital Flows into Chip Stocks, Driving South Korea's KOSPI Index to Surge Over 8%] Odaily Planet Daily News – On Wednesday, Seoul's stock market returned to the 7,000-point threshold as risk appetite rebounded and foreign investors increased their buying efforts. The South Korea KOSPI index soared more than 8% at one point during intraday trading. As of 2:30 PM local time, foreign investors had made net purchases of stocks worth 2.4 trillion won (approximately $1.61 billion), more than double the nearly 1 trillion won net purchases from the previous day. Institutional investors made net purchases of 180 billion won, with their buying momentum slowing compared to Tuesday. Retail investors were the only net sellers, offloading stocks worth nearly 2.5 trillion won. (Jin10)