South Korea Caps Individual Exposure to Leveraged AI-Chip ETFs, Mandates Weeklong Investor Education Course

South Korean regulators are moving to cap individual exposure to risky leveraged chip ETFs and require a weeklong investor education course before retail traders can access the products, per the Financial Times. The intervention follows a boom in Korean retail bets on AI-chip names driven by the Samsung/SK hynix HBM cycle, and marks one of the first structured retail-guardrail responses to the AI hardware trade.