Kim Ji-hoon, an office worker in his 30s, said he recently bought silver bars online, as he couldn’t find them anywhere else. “Prices keep rising, and everyone says precious metals are safer right now, especially in the wake of the Middle East war. When I saw someone selling one on a secondhand platform, I bought it immediately.” Similarly, Park Min-jung, an office worker in her 40s, said she sold a small gold bar through an online secondhand item platform after its price surged. “I bought it a few years ago just to have something tangible,” she said. “Now that gold prices are high, I realized I could easily sell it online. It felt like quick cash.” Not only precious metals but computer components are also drawing attention as tradable assets online. Lee Sung-ho, a university student who builds computers as a hobby, said he has recently begun tracking memory chip prices almost like a financial market. “DRAM prices have been rising, so I started checking resale platforms more often,” he said. “I bought a few RAM (random access memory) modules earlier this year when they