South Korea’s rookie investors lose small fortunes amid AI stocks frenzy

Seoul, South Korea – As South Korea’s stock market was surging on the back of AI-driven chip demand early this year, Eun-bi withdrew most of her savings and invested them in shares.

Eun-bi, a civil servant in her thirties, bought several of the market’s star performers, chief among them memory chipmaker SK Hynix, and a United States-listed fund that tracks the semiconductor indu...