"I Want to Tell My Younger Self"... In a Sitcom 24 Years Ago, Hynix Was Priced at 460 Won

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[Financial News]"In a sitcom from 24 years ago, Hynix stock was shown at 460 won on the stock quote screen that Park Yeong-gyu and Lee Eung-kyung were looking at. That was real. If I had bought just 1 million won worth back then, it would be worth 40 billion won now."A post expressing regret, remorse and a sigh of disbelief recently appeared on Threads, a social networking service, along with a screenshot from a scene in a sitcom that aired in the early 2000s. The sentiment was not unique to that user.
On the 17th, users on SNS and online communities shared the same scene and reacted in similar ways. It is a scene from the SBS sitcom "Honest Living," which aired from 2002 to 2003. "Honest Living" is a sitcom from the Kim Byung-wook team, known for "Soonpoong Clinic" and the "High Kick!" series.
In the scene, Park Yeong-gyu and Lee Eung-kyung, who play a frugal couple in the drama, are shown checking stock prices on a computer. What drew attention were the stocks on the screen. Hynix is listed at just 460 won. Hyundai Motor Company and LG Chem are also visible, at around 35,900 won and 45,450 won, respectively.
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The episode aired in December 2002, when Hynix was undergoing a workout amid a cash crunch and a slump in the semiconductor industry. It was the period after Hyundai Electronics, which had acquired LG Semicon, entered restructuring over debt problems and was renamed Hynix after leaving only its semiconductor division. That is why the name SK had not yet been added to Hynix.
Trading volume also surged as day traders piled in. In the actual monitor shown in the scene, Hynix trading volume is seen exceeding 400 million shares.
It is hard to imagine now, amid the recent semiconductor supercycle and SK hynix's vertical rise in share price.
Hynix later made a dramatic comeback. Acquired by SK Group in 2011, it was reborn as SK hynix and established itself as a key semiconductor company in the era of artificial intelligence (AI), led by its competitiveness in High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) technology. As the AI investment boom drove demand for high-performance memory, its stock price also climbed sharply.
On the 15th, SK hynix surged to as high as 1,995,000 won during intraday trading. It closed at 1,819,000 won.
By simple calculation, an investor who bought Hynix shares when they were 460 won would have earned a return of more than 39,400%.
Netizens reacted with comments such as, "I thought it would go bankrupt back then," "I want to tell my younger self to buy Hynix," "Is the one who holds on the real winner?" and "History is only clear in hindsight," underscoring the dramatic shift between then and now.
y27k@fnnews.com Seo Yoon-kyung Reporter