{"id":424694,"date":"2026-05-04T11:34:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/424694\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T11:34:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:34:19","slug":"debt-financed-stock-investment-booming-as-market-surges-in-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/424694\/","title":{"rendered":"Debt-financed stock investment booming as market surges in South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/society\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Society<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Soaring housing prices and youth fears for the future drive risk-taking<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/3\/6.jpeg\" alt=\"20260429 KOSPI 6000\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">The Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) achieved a historic milestone by jumping\u00a0beyond 6000 points in February. A factor in\u00a0the rise has been an increase in debt-financed\u00a0investing. \u00a9 Yonhap<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">SEOUL &#8212; Debt-financed stock investing is overheating in South Korea. Margin loans to retail investors have doubled in April\u00a0from a year earlier to over 30 trillion won ($20 billion), as surging home prices and pension worries push individuals toward riskier bets. The government now faces the task of protecting retail investors.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Society Soaring housing prices and youth fears for the future drive risk-taking The Korea Composite Stock Price Index&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[199788,114,199787,184,85,1981,46,19163,5257,4153,5615,46195],"class_list":["post-424694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-booming","tag-business","tag-debt-financed","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-investment","tag-israel","tag-korea","tag-market","tag-south","tag-stock","tag-surges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}