Elon Musk’s Many Korean Fans Have Built a $15 Billion Tesla Stake

Bloomberg2022-08-24

In a country where economic inequality has inspired Parasite and Squid Game, retail investors hoping for a ticket to prosperity have amassed a huge position in the electric-car maker.llustration: ...

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They said go big or go home
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Only Musk is Tesla super man and god create him to make visionary for the future
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That compares with an increase of about 40% for Samsung Electronics Co.—the most widely held stock in the country—and even less for Korea’s Kospi index.“With this man, I thought we could go all-in,” says Park, who bought at an average price of $668 a share, well below the close of $870 on Aug. 22. She and her husband see Musk as a visionary who will succeed in continuing to effect change in the auto industry. “He’s doing things that nobody was thinking of before,” she says.Individual Koreans held about 1.6% of the company’s equity as of Aug. 17, according to calculations by Bloomberg News based on data from Korea’s central securities depository. That’s more than their combined investments in Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia, the data show. There are no official figures on the total holdings of US retail traders in Tesla, which is assumed to be larger given the bigger pool of investors in its home market. 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Despite their lifetime of slogging that transformed the economy into an export powerhouse, elderly Koreans’ poverty rate is the highest among the 38 member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.A Tesla store in Seoul.Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg“I fell into a panic that I might never be able to buy a house,” says Son Gilhun, a 27-year-old forklift driver who lives in Hanam on the southeast outskirts of the capital. “Instead of giving up, I decided to follow my older colleagues in buying stocks.” He gambled heavily on Tesla and amassed a stock portfolio worth about $100,000 during the pandemic by adopting a frugal lifestyle and channeling half his $2,000 monthly paycheck into equities. Son trimmed his Korean holdings and boosted his stake in the carmaker in June when the shares fell below $700. 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