Kospi Rout Sours Korean Retail Investors on Stock Market

Retail investors lost substantial sums; one trader took a 50 million won loan against his apartment collateral and suffered significant losses.

In the summer of 2026, South Korea's retail investors learned a painful lesson about the distance between government promise and market reality. The Kospi index shed 22 percent in July — its sharpest monthly fall since the 2008 financial crisis — erasing the gains of a euphoric spring in which ordinary citizens had borrowed against their homes to participate in what felt like a national moment of prosperity. The instruments the government had introduced to democratize investing, single-stock leveraged ETFs, became instead engines of amplified ruin, leaving behind not just financial loss but a

Kospi Rout Sours Korean Retail Investors on Stock Market

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