00:02You're listening to AI PRISM from Seoul Economic Daily.
00:06If you hold Korean chip names or a cost-buy index fund, yesterday changed the arithmetic.
00:11Pause.
00:12The index jumped 5.89% in a single session.
00:16SK Hynek spent more than a trillion won buying its own shares on day one.
00:21And foreign investors have been net buyers in six of the past seven sessions.
00:25It's Friday, August 21st.
00:28Let's look at what this means for retail investors in Korea.
00:31The cost-buy fell sharply in July and had struggled to hold the 7,000 line since.
00:36Global investment banks said the index needed calmer volatility
00:39and a concrete shareholder return plan before foreign money returned.
00:44SK Hynek's delivered the second condition earlier than the market expected.
00:49Here's what the numbers show.
00:50The cost-buy closed at 6,852.58, up 381.41 points or 5.89%, triggering this year's 24th buy
01:01-side sidecar.
01:02SK Hynek's bought 650,000 of its own shares at an average 1,678,182 won,
01:11spending $1.09 trillion, about $780 million, on the first day of the program.
01:18SK Hynek's closed 12.73% higher at 1,691,001,
01:24and Samsung Electronics rose 9.49% to $271,001.
01:29Foreign investors net bought 1.71 trillion won of Cosby shares,
01:34taking six-session net buying to $6.39 trillion won, roughly $4.6 billion.
01:40Matter of fact, SK Hynek's will cancel 40 trillion won of stock within three months
01:45and return more than 50% of cumulative free cash flow from 2025 to 2027.
01:52JP Morgan put that $40 trillion won figure at 63% of trailing 12-month free cash flow,
01:58the most aggressive return among global memory peers.
02:01So, what does this mean for retail investors holding Korean exposure?
02:06Earlier, we said a single session changed the arithmetic.
02:09Here's what that actually means for you.
02:11A buyback that ends in cancellation permanently reduces the share count,
02:15so it shows up in per-share figures rather than as cash in your account,
02:19which is the opposite of how a dividend works.
02:22The second thing to know is a rule change that did not happen,
02:26because regulators decided not to relax the 0.7 correlation requirement
02:30that has delisted active exchange-traded funds even when they beat their benchmarks.
02:35Watch Samsung Electronics for its own return plan,
02:38which analysts size near $150 trillion won, about $107 billion.
02:43Watch whether foreign net buying continues with the one holding below $1,400 per dollar.
02:49Watch active fund listings, up 15.9% to 321 products this year against 9.1% growth for passive,
02:58and check the correlation rules of anything you already hold.
03:01That's today's AI Prism, Retail Investors.
03:05This episode was produced with AI assistance based on Seoul Economic Daily reporting
03:10and reviewed by a human editor.
03:12AI Prism is a Juan Ifra Award-winning series.
03:15We'll be back tomorrow.
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