Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://mypepack.gophersport.com/video/?vid=TaD2KMNsn43 Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Koreas Stock Market Has Become a Real-Life Squid Game [lUvq1tbldVM] Health Updated on August 06, 2026 EDT — Published on August 06, 2026 EDT The market that keeps switching itself off Last year the KOSPI was the most profitable stock market in the world. This year it peaked above 9,000 — then fell 27%, tripping Korea's circuit breakers five times in four months. Twice on days when nothing happened at all. This is what's actually going on inside it: two chip stocks that make up 60% of the index, 150 trillion won of forced institutional selling, 14 million retail investors catching it with borrowed money, and the sixteen 2x leveraged ETFs that turn ordinary volatility into a shredder. Samsung posted 89.4 trillion won in quarterly operating profit — plausibly the largest in corporate history. The stock fell 9.6% that day. PjmBUs7eNxg 3tgI862QZIm eSUGhjtOuCs 1oCOylRR7K5 TlYDzF20ESR 4t19F9JAiPi AQMcBSUvJlS
The market that keeps switching itself off Last year the KOSPI was the most profitable stock market in the world. This year it peaked above 9,000 — then fell 27%, tripping Korea's circuit breakers five times in four months. Twice on days when nothing happened at all. This is what's actually going on inside it: two chip stocks that make up 60% of the index, 150 trillion won of forced institutional selling, 14 million retail investors catching it with borrowed money, and the sixteen 2x leveraged ETFs that turn ordinary volatility into a shredder. Samsung posted 89.4 trillion won in quarterly operating profit — plausibly the largest in corporate history. The stock fell 9.6% that day. PjmBUs7eNxg 3tgI862QZIm eSUGhjtOuCs 1oCOylRR7K5 TlYDzF20ESR 4t19F9JAiPi AQMcBSUvJlS