
When Korea put the ants on the front page.
In 2022, South Korea's leading economic newspaper ran a full-page spread — crying Pepe frogs dressed as protestors, weeping over a Samsung price chart. The retail ants had been crushed. Again.
Since 2009, Korean retail traders have called themselves 개미 — "ants." Small. Overlooked. Endless. The institutions had the capital. The whales had the size. The ants had each other.
But ants don't stay down. They regroup. They march again. And this time they carry a weapon the whales never handed them: a commission-free terminal in every pocket.
