{"id":1022439,"date":"2026-07-21T07:50:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T02:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022439"},"modified":"2026-07-21T07:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T02:25:15","slug":"how-korean-stocks-turned-from-trusty-bellwether-to-ai-frenzy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/21\/how-korean-stocks-turned-from-trusty-bellwether-to-ai-frenzy\/","title":{"rendered":"How Korean stocks turned from trusty bellwether to AI frenzy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billions of dollars in leveraged bets on South Korea&#8217;s AI darlings have warped a stock market once revered as a reliable barometer of global growth into a wild casino, confounding both regulators and investors. <\/p>\n<p>That volatility, felt on dealing desks from Tokyo to New York, has not only wreaked havoc with portfolios &#8211; it has also dramatically distorted investors&#8217; views on fundamentals in South Korea, a market at the heart of the global AI boom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billions of dollars in leveraged bets on South Korea&#8217;s AI darlings have warped a stock market once revered as a reliable barometer of global growth into a wild casino, confounding both regulators and investors. That volatility, felt on dealing desks from Tokyo to New York, has not only wreaked havoc with portfolios &#8211; it has also dramatically distorted investors&#8217; views on fundamentals in South Korea, a market at the heart of the global AI boom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022463,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022439\/revisions\/1022463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}