South Korea's booming stock market mints a generation of novice investors

Kim Ha-young, a Seoul office worker in her 30s, invested without prior research in SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics, top memory chip makers for AI. After a rapid climb in September, her shares more than doubled since February. The article describes how South Korea's booming stock market, with the KOSPI breaking 7,000 points, is minting a new generation of novice investors.