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Editorial: South Korea is not the AI bust - its the first stress test
Editorial: South Korea is not the AI bust - it's the first stress test Everyone seems to have one thing to say about South Korea's stock market these days. Bloomberg Opinion warns that the country is becoming "uninvestable." Asia Times sees a familiar story in which "financial leverage plus unsophisticated new buyers plus a strong fundamental story" produced a spectacular bubble and crash. The Economist portrays South Korea as "a great experiment in mixing the extremes of state capitalism and market speculation," August 4, 2026