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Turnover in Korea chipmaker single-stock ETFs drops 27% to KRW 7.46 trillion

Turnover in Korea chipmaker single-stock ETFs drops 27% to KRW 7.46 trillion

Hong Kong-listed 2x long ETFs tied to SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics also tumbled, extending steep losses from their peaks as leveraged chipmaker products remained under pressure.

Fact Check
Multiple independent sources corroborate both parts of the claim. The odaily and PANews reports confirm the 27% drop to KRW 7.46 trillion in Korean single-stock chipmaker ETF turnover on July 27, 2026, citing a primary Korean article (v.daum.net). BlockBeats separately confirms the Hong Kong-listed CSOP (Southern) 2x Long SK Hynix ETF (07709) down ~85% from its peak and the 2x Long Samsung Electronics ETF (07747) down ~78% from its peak, consistent with the claim that leveraged chipmaker products remained under pressure. The KRW 7.46 trillion and 27% figures are precise and consistent across sources.
Summary

Turnover in 16 single-stock leveraged and inverse ETFs linked to Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix fell to KRW 7.46 trillion on July 27, dropping below KRW 10 trillion for the day as stricter financial regulation loomed. Even as activity in the broader segment cooled, Samsung Asset Management's KODEX SK Hynix Single Stock Leveraged ETF recorded average daily trading value of KRW 4.5383 trillion from July 1 to July 27. Electronic Times Internet said that was about seven times the combined average daily trading value of roughly KRW 650.3 billion across South Korea's five largest virtual-asset exchanges, including Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, Korbit and Gopax, over the same period based on 18 ETF trading sessions. In Hong Kong, chipmaker-linked leveraged products also came under heavy pressure on July 29, with the CSOP 2x Long SK Hynix ETF falling 17.6% intraday to HK$31.2, nearly 85% below its peak of HK$193.65, while the CSOP 2x Long Samsung Electronics ETF dropped 9.6% to HK$55.4, nearly 78% below its peak of HK$243.1, according to Bitget market data cited by BlockBeats.

Terms & Concepts
  • leveraged and inverse ETFs: Exchange-traded funds designed to amplify or move opposite to an underlying asset's daily return.
  • single-stock ETFs: Exchange-traded funds built around the performance of one listed company.
  • KRX SK Hynix Index: The benchmark index tracked by the ETF, whose daily move is doubled by the leveraged product.