South Korea’s National Growth Fund is stepping up support for sovereign AI, bio and secondary battery sectors, prompting investors to search for beneficiaries. The fund has approved 11 projects through April, with cumulative approvals of about 8.4 trillion won. Beneficiary candidates cited include POSCO Future M, Dong-A Socio Holdings, Foosung, Naver and Samsung SDS. Analysts said investors should check ownership ties, business links and actual inflows of funds.

Shinhan Investment Securities said on Tuesday that investing by minors often begins with mobile-based, non-face-to-face account openings and develops into long-term, diversified investing centred on exchange-traded funds. It said the number of minor accounts opened in the first quarter of 2026 rose 272 percent from a year earlier, with 58.4 percent opened non-face-to-face. Average balances were about 10 million won per account, and trading favoured large-cap stocks and index-tracking ETFs.