Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://mypepack.gophersport.com/video/?vid=dslexnpF2XG Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Koreas Stock Market Has Become a Real-Life Squid Game [r7FW7eAtDCU] Health Updated on August 07, 2026 EDT — Published on August 07, 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. Taq61mJH6PI xAwe3O4WIlm FkCl4y7Tmgb uVdjbyLuLZt
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. Taq61mJH6PI xAwe3O4WIlm FkCl4y7Tmgb uVdjbyLuLZt