Leveraged ETFs and Samsung stock drive 70% of South Korea's $4.3tn market trading

Retail investor enthusiasm for leveraged ETFs in South Korea has reached the point where those products, together with the Samsung and SK Hynix chipmaker stocks they track, now account for more than 70% of trading value on the country's $4.3 trillion market. The trend highlights growing concentration risk and speculative behaviour among Korean retail investors.