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The assets of the hedge fund, which were defeated by ant investors in the US Gamestop Short Selling War, were cut in half in a month.
In the process, a brokerage company was controversial about'side the forces' by restricting transactions to private investors only.
This is Kim Yoon-soo, correspondent in Washington.
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Melvin Capital, an American hedge fund, which has achieved nearly 50% annual returns through its short selling strategy.
Assets under management, which amounted to 14 trillion won at the beginning of last year, were cut in half within the month of January.
Leading the GameStop Short Selling Ant investors rebelled, raising the stock price by close to 1700%, resulting in a snowball loss.
In the process, the CEO of an online securities company in the US, who was controversial to side with the power by limiting the purchase of stocks by individual investors, came to an explanation.
The surge in stock prices raised the mandatory stock deposit by 10 times.
[Tenneb/Securities Co., CEO Robin Hood: To protect the company and its customers, we had to limit purchases.]
However, the US Securities and Exchange Commission launched an investigation saying that it would look closely for any disadvantages to investors.
GameStop shares rose 68% again as trading restrictions were lifted.
[Senator Warren/US: The GameStop incident is an example of what has been happening on Wall Street for a very long time.
This is a manipulated game.]
Domestic individual investors, so-called Seohak ants, also bought and sold more than 150 billion won of GameStop stock as of the 29th, but they are showing extreme volatility, so caution is needed.