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Friendly Economy, reporter Ae-ri Kwon is out. Kwon, it was just about this time that the news broke yesterday (31st) that North Korea's reconnaissance satellite launch failed. In Seoul, a disaster warning was sounded, but our stock market was calm?

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Yes. Our situation has been disrupted all over the world, and at one point an evacuation order was issued in Okinawa, Japan. Nonetheless, our stock market was calm.

Although it closed the day with a slight downtrend, it actually climbed to an intraday high in the morning, at one point surpassing the 2,590 level.

On the contrary, foreign investors bought up in droves as soon as the market opened, and at one point the market hit a record high for the year.

In fact, whenever there is a provocation from North Korea, South Koreans are not very surprised, but foreigners are very anxious. You talk about this a little bit.

Yesterday's stock market didn't even show that. In fact, the impact of the so-called North Korea risk has been invisible in the stock market for some time.

Even though North Korea unilaterally withdrew from the 2018 Pyongyang Joint Declaration and last year successfully test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) within range of the United States.

Still, our stock market didn't seem to be affected much at the time.

Even when the level of North Korea's provocations rises, we perceive it as a kind of recurring event, and we continue to see that anxiety about military turmoil does not appear as it has in the past.

[Chon Byung-seo, director of the China Institute of Economics and Finance: The Korean peninsula issue that investors in the Western world are looking at, and the question of today's reconnaissance satellite, has an answer in Samsung Electronics' stock price.