ZTrader Macro & AI Notes

ZTrader Macro & AI Notes

Korea’s AI Chip Trade Broke Its Own Market: Inside the KOSPI’s Record Crash

The rise and fall of South Korea's AI memory supercycle.

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Dorian
Jul 29, 2026
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The index that beat every market on earth for five months just gave back the better part of that gain in a matter of weeks, and the reason has less to do with sentiment than with a leverage structure nobody stress-tested for a memory-chip supercycle unwinding into a rate hike and an oil shock at the same time.

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