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Korean retail investors' U.S. stock holdings top $200 billion again

Korean retail investors are again shifting funds to the U.S. stock market, pushing holdings above $200 billion for the first time in about four months. Depositary data showed U.S. stock holdings at $200.2 billion as of Oct. 5. Holdings had peaked at $206.3 billion on June 2 before falling to $171.5 billion at end-July, then rebounded from August. Net buying resumed in June and continued for four consecutive months.

AI & Enterprise

Hancom Innostream unveils Hancom AX Lab AI, AX training brand at SLW 2026

Hancom Innostream, a subsidiary of Hancom, introduced its AI and AX training brand Hancom AX Lab at Smart Life Week 2026 held at Seoul’s COEX. The company also set up a Hancom AX Lab showroom in the COEX Hall A Yangjae and Suseo Physical AI Zone. The showroom demonstrates industrial robot operations and presents training content using Nvidia’s robot simulation platform Isaac Sim.

Finance

Investment firms on edge ahead of parliament audit as leverage losses, finance hacking loom

South Korea's financial investment industry is bracing for a parliamentary audit that is expected to focus on investor protection and information security. Lawmakers are set to question regulators over the rollout and supervision of single-stock leveraged and inverse exchange-traded products after disclosures of retail losses. The expanding hacking incidents across financial institutions have also put securities firms' security and internal control systems under scrutiny, alongside calls for tougher preventive inspections.