KOSPI surpasses 2,600 mark for first time

Korea's benchmark KOSPI index hit an all-time intra-day record on Monday, surpassing the two-thousand-six-hundred mark for the first time in history.
The KOSPI started off at two-thousand-five-hundred-88-point-87, before climbing to two-thousand-six-hundred-and-five as of 11:45 a.m., backed by strong gains on Wall Street last week.
Market heavyweight Samsung Electronics and chipmaker SK Hynix gained more than one percent each during the first hour of trading.
The tech-heavy KOSDAQ is also rising steadily towards the nine-hundred-twenty mark.
The local currency began trading at one-thousand-64 won against the U.S. dollar, up zero-point-one won from the previous session's close.