Shin Gi-ru’s First Stock Buy Was SK hynix at 1.46 Million Won, Jo Hye-ryun Reveals Her Holdings Too

Comedian Shin Gi-ru said on the web variety show Shin Yeoseong that she bought SK hynix at 1.46 million won per share on her very first day of stock investing. The story came up in Episode 26 of Shin Yeoseong, released on June 16, where host Jo Hye-ryun also opened up about holding semiconductor-related stocks of her own.

The 1.46 million won purchase story surfaced during the early part of Shin Yeoseong EP.26. Shin Gi-ru appeared wearing a flashy necklace and bracelet, joking that she had styled herself like someone who had bought SK hynix at 80,000 won. When Jo Hye-ryun responded that SK hynix was in the 1.4 million won range, Shin Gi-ru confessed, I started stocks for the first time yesterday. I went into SK hynix at 1.46 million won per share.

Shin Gi-ru also said she had not been especially interested in financial investment until then. When she had money, she tended to spend it on good food and drinks rather than on building a portfolio. The point of the exchange was not simply that her first pick was a large semiconductor stock drawing market attention, but that she showed, in the language of variety-show banter, both the excitement and unease of a beginner investor who had only just entered the market.

Shin Gi-ru said she checked the stock price the next morning and found that it had risen to 1.62 million won. That prompted her to remark, So this is how money is made. Sitting with her, Jo Hye-ryun said she had entered around the 870,000 won level and revealed that she owns shares in both Hanmi Semiconductor and SK hynix.

The conversation played less like investment advice and more like a scene in which middle-aged female comedians translated personal finance into their own everyday comic vocabulary. As of the morning of June 17, SK hynix continued to show strength, trading during the session at around 2.4 million won.

Stories about entertainers and their investments have become familiar material on television broadcasts and YouTube programs. Private money topics such as housing prices, luxury goods, stocks and coins are increasingly used as material for laughs, but a celebrity's passing remark can still sound to fans and viewers like something close to a real-life choice.

Shin Gi-ru's comments are better understood not as a recommendation of a specific stock, but as a variety-show account of the first-day thrill experienced by someone who had just started investing. In the roughly 35-minute Shin Yeoseong EP.26, the stock discussion appeared during early character talk rather than as a formal financial segment.