There are more than 14 million retail investors in South Korea who are called 'ants'.
Just an unbelievable rally .
And Korea's performance blows them out of the water .
Retail investors they've been the main driver of the KOSPI.
And amid the mania is a mounting fear that a bubble will soon burst .
Data centers need memory chips , specialized semiconductors that store and rapidly feed information to AI processes.
At points this year, Samsung has seen its stock rise 500%, while SK Hynix has surged more than 1,000%.
Young people who feel like they're out of options to own a house are starting to invest in stocks so they can start to build wealth .
She hadn't told her family about the scale of her investing or the leverage she'd taken on.
A large part of her portfolio is made up of leveraged ETFs , investments designed to multiply daily returns.
Cheering this bullishness on is Korea's president Lee Jae Myung.
The former trader turned politician has enacted sweeping reforms, leveling the playing field for smaller shareholders and strengthening corporate accountability .
The real-world beneficiaries are just making money hand over fist , as long as the AI CapEx bubble lasts.
Any sign it's slowing down exposes South Korea's market to volatility that could wipe-out investor wealth.
The problem is, is that I'm not trying to call the top , and I don't know where the top is.
We know that the AI bubble cannot inflate ad infinitum .
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