There is a memory ETF now. It trades on the Cboe BZX exchange under the ticker DRAM, it launched on April 2, 2026, it charges 0.65%, and the issuer calls it a “pure play” — the first-ever memory stock ETF. Roughly half of that pure play is two companies listed in Seoul. The Korea ETF … Read more
MSCI’s August review takes effect on the August 31 close. Index money buys and sells that day whatever the price, and if you hold EWY it buys for you.
EWY’s No. 3 holding is SK Square at 3.44% — and its main asset is a 20.50% stake in SK Hynix, the No. 2 holding. The disclosed weight understates it.
The KOSPI rose 11.49% last week but 88% of that came in three sessions, while the KOSDAQ built 84.5% of its gain on Monday alone. A US account holding EWY received +8.22%.
iShares’ own holdings file says EWY’s top two stocks are 42.85 percent, not the 50 percent screeners show. One of those numbers cannot exist.
SK Hynix’s GDR (Luxembourg HYXS, Frankfurt HY9H) charges $0.02 a share per dividend. The SKHY ADR’s cap is $0.05 per ADS, and one share is ten ADSs.
Weekly scoreboard for August 3–7, 2026. The KOSPI fell 5.10% to 6,258.77, a seventh straight weekly loss and the longest streak since December 2022.
On August 6 Korea’s deputy prime minister said the index was “stabilizing.” The KOSPI closed down 4.58% that day.
Korea will put ₩20 trillion (about $14 billion) into AI through a new Strategic Investment Account inside KIC — the first time its sovereign wealth fund has been allowed to invest at home. What actually changed, why the money is meant to attract rather than buy, and the five checkpoints that decide whether it works.
On July 30 the won closed at a five-month high while the KOSPI fell for a third day — and Samsung rose 2.4% while SK Hynix fell about 3%. Same currency, same sector, opposite directions.