
<body><p>STORY: SK Hynix shares fell more than 15% in trading on Monday - just days after its U.S. listing.</p><p>It was the South Korean chip giant's biggest one-day decline on record.</p><p>Investors in Seoul cashed out of a massive share price rally following its Nasdaq debut last week.</p><p>The fall in SK Hynix and rival Samsung Electronics stock led to a 9% plunge in South Korea's Kospi and triggered a 20-minute trading halt.</p><p>That was despite President Lee Jae Myung announcing government support for three major projects in chips, AI data centers and physical AI.</p><p>SK Hynix is the world's leading AI memory chipmaker.</p><p>It raised over $26 billion last week selling American Depositary Receipts priced at $149 each.</p><p>Its Korean shares have more than tripled this year.</p><p>It has become a target of global investors betting on a sustained boost to profits.</p><p>They think a shortage of high-bandwidth memory chips used in AI data centers could boost its numbers.</p><p>One leading analyst said investors were profit-taking following the U.S. listing.</p><p>And further said sentiment grew cautious over SK Hynix's second-quarter earnings.</p><p>They said investors had expected shipments of the firm's HBM4 chips to rise from the second quarter.</p><p>But the increase didn't appear to have happened at scale.</p></body>