ETF abnormality | Foreign capital buys Korean stocks all day, creating a historical record. South doubled the long position on Samsung Electronics (07747), which rose more than 25%. TR Korea (02848) rose more than 9%.

2026-05-06 15:10

Zhitongcaijing
South Korea ETF performed strongly today. As of the time of writing, South Korea Double Bull Samsung Electronics (07747) rose 25.82% to 130.6 Hong Kong dollars; South Korea Double Bull SK Hynix (07709) rose 18.7% to 71.22 Hong Kong dollars; TR Korea (02848) rose 9.41% to 9.41 Hong Kong dollars.
The South Korean ETF performed strongly today. As of the time of writing, the South twice Long Samsung Electronics (07747) rose 25.82% to 130.6 Hong Kong dollars; the South twice Long SK Hynix (07709) rose 18.7% to 71.22 Hong Kong dollars; TR Korea (02848) rose 9.41% to 9.41 Hong Kong dollars.
On the news front, on Wednesday, the South Korean KOSPI index closed up 6.45% at 7384.56 points. In terms of heavyweight stocks, the two major storage giants rose together, with Samsung Electronics up 14.41% and SK Hynix up 10.64%. In addition, SK Hynix's largest shareholder SK Square and KAM Semiconductor also rose. According to Caijing, foreign investors net bought 31.3 trillion won worth of South Korea's KOSPI index constituent stocks, marking the largest single-day net buy in the market's history.
Data shows that in the first quarter, Samsung achieved an operating profit of 5.72 trillion won, a year-on-year increase of 756%; SK Hynix's net profit in the first quarter was 4.035 trillion won, a year-on-year increase of 398%. The industry generally believes that the tight supply situation for memory chips will be difficult to fundamentally alleviate before at least 2027, and some insiders even analyze that considering the time needed for upstream expansion, the tightness of storage chips in 2028 may worsen.