{"id":76397,"date":"2026-07-06T15:54:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/76397\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T15:54:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:54:06","slug":"korean-market-and-samsung-sk-hynix-stocks-central-to-ai-trade-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/76397\/","title":{"rendered":"Korean Market and Samsung, SK Hynix Stocks Central to AI Trade This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investors in the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ai-stocks-chips-rally-mag7-divergence-hyperscalers-hardware-memory-2026-7\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AI trade<\/a> are looking to South Korea for answers this week.<\/p>\n<p>The nation&#8217;s stock market \u2014 which counts trillion-dollar chipmakers Samsung and SK Hynix as primary members \u2014\u00a0has been red-hot this year amid a global memory-chip shortage. That&#8217;s captured the attention of US investors, which are looking ahead to two key developments.<\/p>\n<p>First, <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.businessinsider.com\/stocks\/ssnlf-stock\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Samsung<\/a> will release earnings before the Korean market open on Tuesday, offering a look at the company&#8217;s rapidly growing finances. It&#8217;s expected to see an 18-fold increase in operating profit, and a 127% year-over-year surge in revenue, according to Bloomberg forecasts.<\/p>\n<p>Second, <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.businessinsider.com\/stocks\/hxscf-stock\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SK Hynix<\/a> has started to market a $29 billion US listing, which would be the biggest-ever for a first-time foreign firm. Trading is expected to begin on July 10. The chipmaker is the world&#8217;s top supplier of high-bandwidth memory, a critical component of AI and data center applications.<\/p>\n<p>The move to list in the US represents a significant fundraising opportunity for the South Korea firm. Prior to the debut, it&#8217;s been difficult for US investors to invest directly in the stock.<\/p>\n<p>Demand for memory chips has surged over the past year, marking a new crop of AI winners, shining a new light on South Korea&#8217;s tech sector.<\/p>\n<p>While South Korea&#8217;s stock market has felt some turbulence after a torrid rally, Goldman Sachs maintains that it still has room to run, <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/memory-stocks-etf-dram-sndk-mu-samsung-ai-chips-2026-5?utm_source=linkedin&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=business-author-post-samuel-obrient\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">highlighting the likelihood<\/a> of strong earnings momentum in the next quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investors in the AI trade are looking to South Korea for answers this week. The nation&#8217;s stock market&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[23054,41452,41453,2587,3777,27154,127,241,275,41450,33,964,41451,28060,12527,207,4162],"class_list":["post-76397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sk-hynix","tag-ai-trade","tag-critical-component","tag-first-time-foreign-firm","tag-high-bandwidth-memory","tag-investor","tag-korean-market","tag-samsung","tag-sk","tag-sk-hynix","tag-sk-hynix-stocks-central","tag-south-korea","tag-stock-market","tag-top-supplier","tag-us-listing","tag-week","tag-world","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}