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In 2010, nobody would even bid for Hynix, a debt-laden Korean memory chipmaker its banks had spent a decade trying to sell. In June 2026, SK hynix briefly took the top spot on South Korea's stock market from Samsung. How a bet on a strange stacked memory chip paid off, and how the man who made the bet ended up in a divorce case that weighed a former president's slush fund. Chapters 0:00 Samsung loses the top spot 0:45 The Big Deal 1:53 For Sale 2:58 Trust Me 3:54 The Stack 5:08 Beating Samsung 6:09 The Divorce 7:59 The Race Chey Tae-won and SK deny that slush-fund money reached the group; the Supreme Court threw out the property award without deciding whether it did. The divorce case is back at the Supreme Court and is not final. Market values: 14 Oct 2026, about 1,340 won per dollar. Main sources Etoday, 22 Jun 2026: market value, common shares: https://www.etoday.co.kr/news/view/2596033 Korea JoongAng Daily: the Big Deal: https://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/business/lg-fell-victim-to-a-presidential-push-out-of-chips-now-its-back-with-jim-keller-on-ai/12050823 The Register, 30 Apr 2002: Hynix board rejects Micron: https://www.theregister.com/2002/04/30/hynix_board_snubs_micron_bid/ US Federal Register, 2003: duty on Hynix DRAM: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2003-08-11/pdf/03-20421.pdf Korea JoongAng Daily, 2014: The saving of Hynix: https://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/opinion/the-saving-of-hynix/11546610 Korea JoongAng Daily, 2010: no buyers: https://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/business/hynix-bidding-ends-no-buyers-emerge/10127570 Hankyung Business, 2017: https://magazine.hankyung.com/business/article/201707119622b Korea Times, 14 Feb 2012: SK Telecom completes takeover: https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/business/companies/20120214/sk-telecom-completes-hynix-takeover Korea Times, 31 Jan 2013: https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/20130131/sk-owner-jailed Korea JoongAng Daily: HBM, Samsung and SK hynix: https://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/business/how-hbm-split-the-paths-of-samsung-amd-and-sk-hynix/11975341 KED Global, 2024: Samsung's HBM team: https://www.kedglobal.com/newsView/ked202403290013 Counterpoint Research: DRAM and HBM shares: https://counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/global-dram-and-hbm-market-share Korea JoongAng Daily: 2025 results: https://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/business/sk-hynix-set-to-overtake-samsung-after-posting-record-331b-profit-in-2025/10112993 Al Jazeera, 10 Jul 2026: New York listing: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/7/10/south-koreas-sk-hynix-raises-26-5bn-in-record-breaking-us-ipo Korea Times, 30 May 2024: appeals ruling: https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/business/companies/20240530/sk-group-chief-ordered-to-pay-wife-1-bil-in-divorce-settlement Korea Herald, 16 Oct 2025: Supreme Court: https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10594834 Newsis, 24 Jul 2026: new ruling: https://www.newsis.com/view/NISX20260724_0003721533 Reuters via The Star, 14 Oct 2026: Dell fund: https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2026/10/14/sk-group-chairman-chey-sells-stake-to-dell-family-office-fund-for-406-million Korea Times, 8 Oct 2026: Samsung's record quarter: https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/business/companies/20261008/samsung-electronics-1st-korean-firm-to-top-w100-tril-in-quarterly-operating-profit Images (Wikimedia Commons; "modified" means drawn on) Public domain: Chung Ju-yung, Kim Dae-jung, Roh Tae-woo (US Department of Defense); Roh Tae-woo and Kim Ok-suk (Bush Presidential Library); Samsung Pyeongtaek (The White House) Chey Tae-won: National Assembly of Korea, KOGL Type 1; Press Service of the President of Azerbaijan, CC BY 4.0, modified Park Geun-hye: National Archives of Korea, KOGL Type 1, modified Lee Jae-yong: KBS, CC BY 3.0, modified Roh Soh-yeong: CCKorea, CC BY 2.0, modified Koo Bon-moo: LG Electronics, CC BY 2.0, modified Lisa Su: Gene Wang, CC BY 2.0, modified Jensen Huang: nvidia.corporation, CC BY-SA 2.0; Anderseidesvik, CC BY-SA 4.0, modified Computex 2025: Office of the President, Taiwan, CC BY 2.0, modified Michael Dell: mikeandryan, CC BY 2.0; Oracle PR, CC BY 2.0, modified Memory chips (Hyundai, Hynix, SK hynix, Micron, Samsung, Elpida): Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, modified Samsung store (thumbnail): SUAXINGPWOO Kaliu, CC BY-SA 4.0, modified HBM package: C. Spille/pcgameshardware.de, CC BY-SA 4.0, modified Nvidia H100: Geekerwan, CC BY 3.0, modified SK buildings: Jong Soung Kimm, CC BY-SA 3.0; 최광모, CC BY-SA 4.0, modified Supreme Court of Korea: Seoul Institute, CC BY 4.0, modified Nasdaq, Times Square: Nielsoncaetanosalmeron, CC BY 4.0, modified Unsplash (Unsplash License): Brian Kostiuk; L N; Vo Huyen; Wesley Tingey; Tingey Injury Law Firm; m.; Lucas T Photography; Valentin Lacoste; Brecht Corbeel; Laura Ockel Charts, document cards and the redrawn note: our own drawings, from news reports. Music: made with ElevenLabs Music. Narration voice generated with AI. Not investment advice. #SKhynix #Samsung #Semiconductors #HBM #Documentary

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