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Koreas chip boom draws Hong Kong investors into the bust
Korea's chip boom draws Hong Kong investors into the bust SEOUL, October 22 (AJP) - South Korean chip stocks have brought joy and now grief to thousands of retail investors, and many in Hong Kong would sympathize. Hong Kong ranked as the second-largest source of foreign net buying in Korean listed stocks in the first eight months of 2026, behind France, with net purchases of 6.45 trillion won ($4.83 billion), according to the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS). It ranked sixth for the whole of 2025. U.S. and British investors, meanwhile, October 22, 2026