{"slug": "korea-built-the-most-leveraged-bet-on-the-ai-boom-in-june-it-got-a-preview", "title": "Korea Built the Most Leveraged Bet on the AI Boom. In June, It Got a Preview.", "summary": "South Korea's stock market, heavily reliant on Samsung and SK Hynix, is leveraged to $725 billion in US AI capital expenditures, with 14 million retail investors exposed to the AI boom. A preview of this risk emerged in June, highlighting the concentrated bet on AI-driven earnings.", "body_md": "Half the KOSPI is Samsung and SK Hynix; their earnings ride on $725B of US AI capex, and 14 million retail “ants” are leveraged into it.\nContinue reading on Towards AI »", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/korea-built-the-most-leveraged-bet-on-the-ai-boom-in-june-it-got-a-preview", "canonical_source": "https://pub.towardsai.net/korea-built-the-most-leveraged-bet-on-the-ai-boom-in-june-it-got-a-preview-993cb12bd2d9?source=rss----98111c9905da---4", "published_at": "2026-06-27 16:01:01+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-27 16:39:50.734391+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-chips", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Samsung", "SK Hynix", "KOSPI"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/korea-built-the-most-leveraged-bet-on-the-ai-boom-in-june-it-got-a-preview", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/korea-built-the-most-leveraged-bet-on-the-ai-boom-in-june-it-got-a-preview.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/korea-built-the-most-leveraged-bet-on-the-ai-boom-in-june-it-got-a-preview.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/korea-built-the-most-leveraged-bet-on-the-ai-boom-in-june-it-got-a-preview.jsonld"}}