🚨 IS THIS A GLOBAL MARKET BUBBLE?
Korean retail investors have borrowed a record 36.47 TRILLION won to buy stocks at all-time highs, paying interest rates between 7% and 9%.
📈 That number has doubled in just 12 months.
The KOSPI surged from 6,000 to an intraday high of 8,046 in only nine trading sessions before crashing 6.12% in the exact same session it hit the peak.
⚠️ On the day KOSPI touched 8,000, retail investors bought a record 7.18 TRILLION won of stocks while foreign investors dumped 5.61 TRILLION won on the other side of those trades.
Even more alarming:
👴 Investors aged 50+ now hold 62.3% of all margin debt in Korea.
🏦 Personal credit borrowing at major Korean banks just hit a 3-year high.
💰 Brokerages made record profits from margin lending as leverage exploded across the market.
This is the exact same pattern seen before every major crash:
📉 Dot-com bubble in 2000
📉 Housing bubble in 2007
📉 Market peak in 2021
Now margin debt is hitting records simultaneously across Korea, China, Taiwan, and the United States.
🔥 Retail investors are borrowing aggressively to chase AI and tech stocks while smart money quietly exits.
History may be repeating itself again.
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