Bride-to-be loses 55 million won in wedding savings through short-term stock trading... also loses 30 million won from a secretly taken loan

[Financial News] A woman in her 30s who is set to marry next spring said she lost 55 million won in wedding savings through stock investing, and then lost most of an additional 30 million won loan. She said she is hiding the debt and plans to tell her boyfriend that she wants to call off the engagement first.
On the 6th, a post appeared on the marriage channel of the workplace community NOW Talk, where a woman identified as A in her 30s shared her story. A said she had invested about 55 million won, including money saved over three years at work and money received from her parents, but lost it all.
A explained that she had become overconfident in her investing skills because she had once made monthly profits. She said, "I thought I was good at investing because I made 3 million to 5 million won every month for nearly two years, but it turned out I was just lucky." She added, "Last year, the downturn and the war made it hard to control my emotions, so after cutting my losses, I started short-term trading in soaring stocks with the money I had left, and in the end, everything was liquidated."
Trying to recover her losses, A said she took out an additional 30 million won loan in hopes of growing her wedding fund. However, she said she lost 25 million won of that amount again, leaving only 5 million won. The monthly principal and interest payment on the loan is 470,000 won, while A's monthly take-home pay is around 3.2 million won.
Her boyfriend reportedly knows that A lost her wedding savings, but does not know that she also took out an additional loan. Feeling guilty, A said she had tried several times to bring up breaking up, but her boyfriend would not accept it.
A said she is considering calling off the engagement because she feels sorry toward her boyfriend. She said, "I don't understand why my boyfriend, who works at a major company and is a decent man, is dating someone like me." She added, "I feel so sorry that I want to let him go. If I were alone, I think I could pay it back in a year, but I can't even bring myself to say it."
Readers who saw the story said A should not be the one to decide to call off the engagement first, and that she should tell her boyfriend about the debt as well. They commented, "Rather than announcing a breakup, she should reveal the full debt and let her boyfriend make the decision on his own" and "Whether to let her go or not is for the boyfriend to decide."
Others advised her to hand over financial control to her boyfriend and stop making reckless investments. One reader said, "If she gives up control of the finances and does not do it again, it is not an amount that should lead to calling off the engagement."
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