What if Korea immigration and automation offset demographic drag (good)?
Targeted immigration plus aggressive automation offset Korea's demographic drag, sustaining output per worker; productivity-led growth supports the won and Korean equities despite a shrinking labor force.
how we built this number — every step
The class rate is measured from our dated, sourced event library (decade-normalized Poisson — the full table is public at base_rates.json). The variant’s share within its class is the analyst’s editorial call, published so you can audit it. A wider range means thinner precedent. Full recipe: methodology · scored at Reality Check.
The butterfly cascade
How this trigger trickles across markets, left → right — the root shock, its first‑order moves, then the ripple effects. Drag any node; tap a market for its real price history.
Resolution timeline — how this probability is moving
Our model's odds (gold) over time vs the crowd's (Polymarket, blue), from the past toward the 3–10 years horizon. Each dot is a real macro event that nudged the probability — green pushed it up, red pushed it down. Tap a dot for the source. The gold path is an illustrative reconstruction anchored to today's estimate — real dated events, not a live re-estimate history.
What it would mean
If this plays out, it is a risk-on shock. Targeted immigration plus aggressive automation offset Korea's demographic drag, sustaining output per worker; productivity-led growth supports the won and Korean equities despite a shrinking labor force. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Growth surprise ▲ · Labor surplus ▲ · Risk appetite ▲ · Robotics productivity ▲ — which propagate through our causal graph to the markets below.
If it happens — the markets it would move
Biggest moves first. Projected moves are cascade-model priors; hist A–B% = what comparable past events actually did (measured abnormal returns), and model prior · unmeasured marks markets with no analogue backing yet. Tap any market for its price history.
| Market | Class | Projected move | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▲ +1.2% hist +0.37–+1.34% · other way -0.38% (n=11) |
| 2 | Nvidia NVDAon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▲ +1.1% hist -2.06–+4.49% · other way -3.16% (n=11) |
| 3 | Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▲ +0.9% hist -0.7–+2.17% · other way +0.48% (n=11) |
| 4 | Tech sector XLK 📈 chart | Equity | ▲ +0.8% hist +0.09–+0.8% · other way -0.29% (n=11) |
| 5 | Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▲ +0.7% hist -22.45–+6.5% · other way -16.53% (n=7) |
| 6 | MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▲ +0.7% hist -3.45–+5.74% · other way +3.93% (n=11) |
| 7 | Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon Hyperliquid | Crypto | ▲ +0.6% model prior · unmeasured |
| 8 | S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▲ +0.6% hist -0.06–+0.89% · other way -2.88% (n=12) |
| 9 | Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▲ +0.5% hist -1.72–+1.97% · other way -13.7% (n=8) |
| 10 | AMD AMDon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▲ +0.6% hist -2.31–+1.41% · other way +4.09% (n=12) |
| 11 | Broadcom AVGOon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▲ +0.6% hist -1.86–+4.0% · other way +3.08% (n=11) |
| 12 | Micron MUon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▲ +0.6% hist -3.08–+2.86% · other way -2.5% (n=11) |
| 13 | TSMC TSMon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▲ +0.6% hist -2.02–+3.6% · other way +0.65% (n=11) |
| 14 | Marvell MRVLon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▲ +0.6% hist -0.81–+1.1% · other way +3.11% (n=11) |
Probable recommendation
Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did
Across 11 analogous events (overlap‑weighted), as abnormal returns — market beta stripped, so it's the event's own effect, not the market backdrop. Shown at 20 days (persistent) and 5 days (immediate); ↺ fades = the two horizons disagree. Confidence = consistency × sample × significance.
| Asset | History says | Abnormal (20d · 5d) | Hit | n | Confidence | vs cascade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOL SOL | SHORT | -20.2% · 5d -10.0% | 100% | 8 | 0.69 | ⚠ differs |
| AMD AMD | SHORT | -2.6% · 5d -0.1% | 81% | 10 | 0.46 | ⚠ differs |
| 10y yield DGS10 | LONG | +20bp · 5d +5bp | 74% | 11 | 0.40 | · |
| AVGO AVGO | LONG | +3.7% · 5d +3.9% | 71% | 10 | 0.39 | ✓ matches cascade |
| US dollar DXY | SHORT | -0.6% · 5d -0.2% | 74% | 11 | 0.37 | · |
| QCOM QCOM | SHORT | -2.8% · 5d -0.9% | 76% | 10 | 0.31 | ⚠ differs |
| SPX SPX | LONG | +0.5% · 5d +0.6% | 65% | 11 | 0.26 | ✓ matches cascade |
| MRVL MRVL | SHORT | -1.2% · 5d +1.0% ↺ fades | 67% | 10 | 0.24 | ⚠ differs |
| XLK XLK | SHORT | -0.3% · 5d +0.0% ↺ fades | 67% | 10 | 0.23 | ⚠ differs |
| NVDA NVDA | LONG | +3.8% · 5d +0.8% | 62% | 10 | 0.19 | ✓ matches cascade |
| MSTR MSTR | LONG | +5.5% · 5d -0.2% ↺ fades | 62% | 10 | 0.19 | ✓ matches cascade |
| ETH ETH | SHORT | -2.3% · 5d -2.3% | 65% | 8 | 0.19 | ⚠ differs |
| TSM TSM | LONG | +3.3% · 5d -0.2% ↺ fades | 62% | 10 | 0.19 | ✓ matches cascade |
| MU MU | SHORT | -3.7% · 5d -0.3% | 62% | 10 | 0.17 | ⚠ differs |