On the 26th, after a buy sidecar was activated amid a sharp KOSDAQ surge, the board at the Hana Bank dealing room in Jung-gu, Seoul displays the KOSDAQ index and more. Yonhap News

The KOSDAQ index surpassed 1,060 points during trading, marking its highest level since August 2021.

This afternoon, the KOSDAQ traded at 1,062.36 during the session, up 68.43 points (6.88%) from the previous close, the highest level since August 6, 2021 (1,062.03).

The KOSDAQ even exceeded the 2,900 mark in March 2000 at the height of the dot-com bubble, but it plunged with the collapse of the dot-com bubble and did not recover to earlier levels.

Large-cap stocks are collectively lifting the index, including Rainbow Robotics, fourth by market capitalization on KOSDAQ, which hit the intraday upper limit, as well as EcoPro BM (16.75%) and EcoPro (20.35%). The KOSDAQ 150 Index, which groups KOSDAQ large caps, surged more than 10% during the session.