South Korea’s surge in artificial-intelligence-related investor interest—reflected in a volatile stock market—also appears to be affecting the government bond market, according to multiple reports. Bloomberg frames the issue as spillover pressure from AI-driven trading and shifting risk appetite into fixed-income markets. The Japan Times reports that South Korean government bonds have fallen about 7.5% year-to-date in local-currency terms, marking the weakest performance among 44 government bond markets it tracks. The coverage links the bond selloff to broader market conditions around AI enthusiasm, including portfolio reallocation and changes in expectations that can influence bond prices and yields. While the reports focus on the observed market pressure and relative performance, they do not attribute the decline to a single policy action or cause in the provided excerpts. Overall, both sources describe a simultaneous pattern: heightened attention to AI in equities alongside weaker government bond performance in South Korea compared with peers.