Lee Bokhyun is governor of the Financial Supervisory Service in South Korea. In an interview with Bloomberg TV.
- “If the dust of the financial turmoil is cleared within a couple of months, we will look into deregulation of short selling, hopefully this year,”
- “We will definitely take some measures to make the market more attractive to foreign investors.”
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Short selling in the country was banned during the pandemic. The ban was partially removed in 2021, allows short trades for large-cap shares on the Kospi 200 and Kosdaq 150 indexes.
