KODEX 200TR (278530) 🔎 In-depth
Samsung Asset Management · Equity · Korea · Broad market · Price 2026-08-06 · Analysis 2026-07-14
A market-representative ETF in TR (total return) form that tracks the KOSPI 200 index, holding 200 of Korea's leading blue-chip stocks, but instead of paying dividends out as cash, it automatically reinvests them. It offers broad exposure across Korea's large-cap stocks.
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Price as of 2026-08-06 close
USD values (market cap, AUM, turnover) are converted from KRW at ₩1,423.5 per US$ (2026-08-07); won figures are as reported. Market cap is listed units × market price, while AUM is the fund's net asset value — the two are close but not identical.
Returns & tracking as of 2026-08-06
| Period | ETF (NAV) | Index | Excess |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1M | -19.79% | -19.77% | -0.02% |
| 3M | -14.45% | -14.42% | -0.03% |
| 6M | +30.70% | +30.79% | -0.09% |
| 1Y | +131.29% | +131.21% | +0.08% |
| 3Y | +207.02% | +206.47% | +0.55% |
Returns are NAV-based (distributions not reinvested); the index is the provider's price index, and tracking error is the annualized standard deviation of daily NAV-minus-index return differences. Source: data.go.kr securities market-price API.
Fees & distributions
Fees prior fiscal year · Samsung Asset Mgmt official disclosure
Distributions
Distributions vary with fund performance; paying out more than income can reduce principal.
Understanding this ETF
It tracks the total return (TR) version of the KOSPI 200 index. KOSPI 200 is Korea's headline index, composed of 200 blue-chip large caps of the securities market, holding more of a name the larger its market capitalization. The 'TR' part is a form that assumes the dividends from the constituents are put back into the index calculation and reinvested.
Because it tracks the index at 1x as is, it rises when KOSPI large caps rise and falls when they fall. The biggest difference from a plain KOSPI 200 ETF is how dividends are handled. Instead of paying dividends out as cash, it automatically reinvests them within the product, so over time the dividend portion accumulates and is reflected like compounding. Composed of domestic stocks, there is no FX effect.
It can be used when you want broad exposure to the overall Korean stock market while also having dividends automatically put back to work. Because dividends are reinvested rather than received as cash each time, a plain version may suit better if you want to use dividends as regular income. It holds the headline index so it is more diversified than individual stocks, but you should note that, due to top-heavy large-cap concentration, the whole index is affected by the trend of specific sectors such as semiconductors.
Into 2026, KOSPI rose sharply in a rally led by large semiconductor stocks, and this ETF rode that upward trend. However, the index's rise was clearly concentrated in a small number of large caps, and in July, volatility increased as foreign selling and rebalancing pressure combined to send large caps into a correction.
In a word, it is a product that holds Korea's 200 leading big companies as a whole but, instead of paying dividends out as cash, automatically reinvests them to keep the money working.
Composition
It broadly holds large caps across Korea's major industries, including semiconductors, electronics, financials, autos, and secondary batteries. However, because it is market-cap weighted, the weights of mega caps such as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are very large, so in practice a small number of top names heavily drive the index's performance. It is diversified across 200 stocks, but the weight of large semiconductor stocks is especially heavy in the structure.
Classification
Notes & cautions
- Because it automatically reinvests dividends rather than paying them out as cash, a plain version may be more suitable if you want regular dividend cash flow.
- Given its market-cap-weighted nature, the weight of top large caps such as semiconductors is high, so the whole index is heavily affected by their trend.
ETF terms explained
Korea FSC securities market-price API (data.go.kr) · ETF classification & tagging: our own descriptive categorization
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