'I lost $14,000 in a month': Investors hit by Korean stock market's wild swings

Bank worker Yongjoon Kim lost 20 million Korean won ($14,000; £10,500) on the South Korean stock market last month.

Kim's money was meant to help buy a home, as he is getting married later this year.

Instead the value of his tech investments slumped by around 25% in July.

"It's going to sting and I'm going to have to work really hard to make up for this," Kim says. "But for others who have taken more risk, they're going to feel the pain."

Many of his friends are worse off, and now in a "desperate" situation after "going all in" with their savings, he says.

While plenty of investors are piling into technology stocks , sharp market swings mean the bets don't always pay off, with prices often moving on every major headline.

Nowhere is that instability more pronounced than in South Korea's tech-heavy Kospi, widely regarded as the world's most volatile stock index.

A global frenzy around artificial intelligence has driven wild swings in the value of the country's biggest chipmakers.