Lawyer and broadcaster Seo Dong-ju revealed that she has been steadily averaging down on her SK hynix stock, reducing the size of her losses.
On the 10th, Seo Dong-ju uploaded a video to her YouTube channel titled “Seo Dong-ju’s stock update after entering the 280th floor and gaining ‘companion hynix.’”
That day, Seo Dong-ju mentioned a recent social media post in which she expressed her situation of being stuck in SK hynix through a song. “It was such a long day. I was about to relax with my husband when I thought about being stuck in hynix,” she said. “I changed the lyrics ‘because I love you’ to ‘because I’m stuck in it’ and uploaded myself singing it,” she added, drawing laughter.
On August 26, the day of filming, she checked her stock account and said, “My return is -27.89%.”
Seo Dong-ju joked, “I came back from a 50% loss by the skin of my teeth,” adding, “There’s no other way to put it. Only such a crude expression can describe this situation.”
She continued, “I’ve bought so many times that even I get confused about the floors. The highest was somewhere in the 280s,” and explained, “From then on, I kept buying more to average down. Since it fell to the 1.5 million-won range yesterday, I averaged down once more.”
She added, “I wonder when I’ll reach the 200th floor. I almost call it ‘companion hynix’ now—a companion stock,” and said, “I’m looking toward next year.”
Previously, Seo Dong-ju attracted attention by introducing herself as “Seo Dong-ju, a Korean ant stuck on the 259th floor of a hynix apartment” and revealing her losses from investing in SK hynix.
The “259th floor” meant that her average purchase price for SK hynix was 2.59 million won at the time. It was a metaphor comparing her losses caused by the falling stock price to being stuck on a high floor of an apartment building.
In July, she revealed messages exchanged with her husband on social media and expressed her frustration, saying, “Today is a difficult day when my husband has decided to leave this war-like Korean stock market.”
In the messages, Seo Dong-ju told her husband, “You should just buy ETFs for 500,000 won at a time—the KOSPI Composite Index and Nasdaq. I’ll invest in individual stocks. I think we need to divide it up this way.”
However, her husband expressed his exhaustion with investing, saying, “I’m not going to invest in stocks anymore. You do it. I’ll give you the money,” and adding, “I’m a lost cause. Go on ahead. Live an amazing life for me.”
Seo Dong-ju is the daughter of the late Seo Se-won and broadcaster Seo Jeong-hee. She works as a lawyer and broadcaster, and remarried a non-celebrity four years younger than her last June.
This article has been translated by GripLabs Mingo AI.
