The leveraged ETF market size in South Korea’s stock market has risen to about $45 billion, reaching a record high.

BlockBeats news, July 3, The Kobeissi Letter stated that the leverage level of the Korean stock market is at an extreme state.
The asset management scale of Korean leveraged ETFs has risen to an all-time high of about $45 billion, an increase of about 800% since early 2026.

It pointed out that the proportion of leverage exposure to free float market capitalization has risen to an all-time high of about 2.9%, more than triple the level in January. Free float market capitalization refers to the portion of stocks that are actually available for public trading.

Meanwhile, the asset scale of the 2x long SK Hynix ETF listed in Hong Kong once rose to about $15 billion, becoming the largest single-stock leveraged product globally.
In contrast, the four major 2x long ETFs tracking Micron (MU), NVIDIA (NVDA), SanDisk (SNDK), and Tesla (TSLA) have never exceeded $10 billion in asset scale.

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