On the 22nd in early trading, Korea's quantum cryptography and quantum computing stocks rose together on news that the U.S. government has begun making direct equity investments in quantum computing corporations. In particular, Photon went straight to the upper limit (the top of the daily price band).

Visitors examine a quantum computer model at Quantum Korea 2025 at the aT Center in Seocho-gu, Seoul, on the 24th. /Courtesy of News1.

As of 9:26 a.m. that day on the KOSDAQ market, Photon was trading at 2,730 won, up 630 won (30%) from the previous trading day.

At the same time, AXGATE (23.32%), MOAdata (13.04%), Dream Security (19.24%), and WOORIRO (19.4%) were also strong.

According to Reuters, on the 21st (local time) the Trump administration announced an investment plan to secure minority equity in exchange for providing subsidies to nine quantum computing corporations, including a new IBM venture.

The total investment is about $2 billion (about 3 trillion won). Of that, $1 billion will go to Anderon, a quantum chip manufacturing venture that IBM is establishing in Albany, New York. GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc. will receive $375 million, and D-Wave Quantum, Rigetti Computing, and Infleqtion each signed contracts worth $100 million.

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