South Korea hiked to 3.00% to cool Seoul housing debt even as chip exports surged 68.7%. Brazil, Turkey and South Africa held steady instead, part of a broader emerging-market split as capital flows extend an eighth straight week of inflows.
Korea's August tech rebound was entirely chip-driven, leaving the export boom still hostage to AI memory demand rather than a broad recovery, MOTIR data compiled by Paradis show. Source
