Over the past month, 320000 leveraged retail accounts in South Korea have been forcibly liquidated, with 62% of them being young people aged 20 to 30, resulting in a total loss of approximately 2.15 trillion Korean won According to BlockBeats news, on July 16th, according to statistics from the South Korean Financial Supervisory Agency and a report from Goldman Sachs trading platform, the total actual loss of leveraged trading by individual investors in South Korea over the past month was approximately 2.15 trillion Korean won, or about 1.45 billion US dollars, including the loss of forced liquidation principal, the decrease in net value of leveraged ETFs, debt and option premium losses caused by margin calls, etc. On July 13th alone, over 1.2 million personal credit trading and leveraged product accounts received margin call notifications, of which approximately 320000 to 360000 accounts were forced to close positions and completely clear their principal by securities companies. The Goldman Sachs report points out that forced liquidation on the same day is an important component of institutional net selling. In the age distribution of liquidation accounts, young people aged 20 to 30 account for as much as 62%, mainly concentrated in semiconductor double leverage ETFs such as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. At the same time, the Financial Commission of South Korea has announced the opening of a nationwide unified debt consultation hotline 1375 from October 2026, providing one-stop services such as debt adjustment, personal bankruptcy consultation, and relief for victims of illegal private loans. This measure has been included in the government's report to Congress on "Suicide Prevention Measures for Economic Crisis Victims" to prevent debt problems caused by leveraged liquidation from escalating into social crises. Today, the Financial Services Commission of South Korea tightened regulation again and announced regulatory measures for single stock leveraged ETFs, raising the minimum margin requirement for chip leveraged ETFs. The minimum margin has been increased from 10 million Korean won to 30 million Korean won, and only cash is recognized as margin. The limit for each leveraged trading of a single stock is 20 shares, compared to 1 share previously. South Korea will also ban the listing of new single stock leveraged products. [Original link]