Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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America’s AI spending boom is helping fuel record profits and factory expansion for South Korean chip giants Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. Their rising shares are creating winners in the stock market. But increasingly, some of those gains are moving into one of South Korea’s most familiar stores of wealth: property.

That creates a two-sided risk. AI may be helping South Korea grow faster, but it could also make two of its toughest economic problems — housing affordability and asset inequality — harder to solve.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
02:05 Why Korea is central to the AI boom
03:41 Why the money flows into property
05:30 Widening asset inequality
06:52 What if the AI trade turns?

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