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KOSPI short selling ban (1)

Market Structure/Institutional Behavior
Short Selling Is Back in South Korea: How It Works and What Still Breaks
South Korea fully reinstated short selling on every listed stock on March 31, 2025, ending the longest short-selling ban in the market's history and pairing it with a new real-time system meant to catch the kind of abuse that triggered the ban in the first place. That reform addressed one specific failure mode — undetected naked short selling — but it did nothing to touch a separate source of vi..

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