SK海力士轉漲，此前一度跌近6%。

By midday, Shanghai Composite was up 0.17%, Shenzhen Composite down 1.21% and ChiNext down 1.28% — ChiNext had earlier rallied more than 1.6% before reversing. Turnover across the two bourses exceeded 2.5 trillion yuan and over 3,200 stocks fell. Innovative-drug names led gains, with multiple stocks including Wanbang Medicine hitting daily limit-up. Pork and baijiu sectors outperformed. Compute-infrastructure names such as CPO-related stocks spiked early then eased; MicroLED and e-paper were among the biggest decliners.

A Wall Street Journal survey of seven economists shows the median forecast for June CPI at +3.2% YoY (May +3.1%); MoM is seen at +0.1% (May +0.5%). A second consecutive month above the Bank of Korea's 2% target would strengthen the case for further tightening. DBS economist Ma Tieying cited cumulative input-cost increases and won weakness passing through to the economy and expects a BoK rate hike in July and another in Q4.