Top of South Korea's underage stock market rich list: 17-year-old with assets of 200 billion won

The son of Hanmi Semiconductor Vice Chairman Kwak Dong-shin has topped the list of South Korea's underage stock market richest people. At just 17 years old, he is valued at around 200 billion won (about 214 million yen).
According to a report on the 18th by financial information company F&Guide, the number of minors holding shares worth more than 1 billion won in shares of listed companies in Korea based on the stock valuation as of the 12th was 1.
The number of owners was 90. In particular, Kwak's son held shares worth 200.561 billion won. The number of Hanmi Semiconductor shares held by this young shareholder was 1,977,921, which was 1
It is the most valuable stock held by a minor under the age of 9 (19 is the age of majority in Korea). Hanmi Semiconductor's stock price has soared this year due to increased demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM).
The number of shares held doubled from 1,007,984 to 1,977,921, and the value of the shares rose from 62.2 billion won to 138.4 billion won.
Hanmi Semiconductor supplies SK Hynix with thermocompression (TC) bonders, which are essential for HBM production, and
The stock price has soared 63.65% this year thanks to the AI leader NVIDIA.
The 11-year-old granddaughter of Jeong Ji-wan, chairman of semiconductor materials company Solbrain, is the company's CEO.
He holds 32.1 billion won worth of stocks in three listed companies, including Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., making him the second richest person in the list of minors with stocks. At the end of last year, he held 48.7 billion won worth of stocks, but liquidated some of them.
As a result, the value of the holdings fell by about 34%. Next, the 18-year-old son of Tirebank Chairman Kim Jong Kyu participated in a paid-in capital increase in the biotechnology company Pharmabcine, and acquired 100,000 shares in the company.
In addition, three grandchildren aged between 16 and 18 of the late Lim Seong-ki, founder of Hanmi Group, are said to hold 140,000 shares of Hanmi Science.
It was also revealed that the children of Ecoeye's largest shareholder, Jeong Jeong-soo, aged between 13 and 18, each hold 13.7 billion won worth of stock.
The 17-year-old daughter of Hyundai Department Store Group Chairman Jeong Ji-seon also holds 11.6 billion won in Hyundai Green Food stocks.
The youngest owner is Lee Soo-wan, CEO of Doksan Tecopia, who was born in 2022 and owns 2.2 billion won worth of stocks. In addition, the grandson of Hanilsteel Chairman Uhm Jung Heon
The children, ages 4 to 9, each own stocks worth 1.6 billion to 1.7 billion won.