Korea Built the Most Leveraged Bet on the AI Boom. In June, It Got a Preview.

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.

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. Continue reading on Towards AI »