Korea Capital Market Institute

Retail Investors' Leveraged Investment: Current Status and Implications [Senior Research Fellow] Lee, Hyo Seob Since 2025, Korean stock indices have risen sharply and become more volatile, and as a result, leveraged investment by retail investors has been growing quickly. As of the end of June 2026, the outstanding balance of margin loans in Korea stood at 36.7 trillion won, 5.5 times the level at the end of 2016. This growth is 1.7 times faster than the growth of margin trading in the ... Korea’s Capital Market in 2026, with Investor Rights Protection Still Stuck in the 1960s: Reform Priorities for Unclaimed Shares and Bondholders’ Meetings [Senior Research Fellow] Hwang, Hyunyoung By 2026, Korea’s capital market has made remarkable progress in both market scale and institutional development, as reflected in stock indices and market capitalization, the breadth of its retail investor base, amendments to the Commercial Act, and the electronic securities system. Yet the procedures through which investors recover lost rights and collectively exercise their ri...