When Emily Yang, a 30-year-old office worker in Hong Kong, invested more than 100,000 Hong Kong dollars in a leveraged exchange-traded fund (ETF) linked to SK hynix in late June, she thought she was buying into one of the world's strongest artificial intelligence (AI) stories. Instead, within a week, nearly half of her investment had disappeared. "Everyone around me was talking about AI and how strong SK hynix's prospects were," Yang said. "Its memory technology looked more competitive than Samsung's, and the valuation didn't seem expensive considering its earnings growth. But now I really regret following the crowd." Now deeply underwater, Yang says she no longer knows what to do. "Selling now would mean locking in heavy losses, while averaging down feels too risky. All I can do is wait," she added. Yang is far from alone. A wave of retail enthusiasm over AI has turned leveraged products linked to Korea's largest chipmakers into one of Asia's hottest trades this year. At the center of the frenzy is the CSOP SK hynix Daily (2x) Leveraged Product, which briefly became the world's largest si
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