Retail Investors' Net Purchases in South Korea's Stock Market Surpass 200 Trillion: 131 Trillion in Stocks and 70 Trillion in ETFs
Retail investors' cumulative net purchases in South Korea's stock market reached KRW 201,850,300,000,000 as of July 31 this year. However, it would be inaccurate to interpret this simply as investors having bought KRW 200,000,000,000,000 worth of domestic stocks. The figure includes not only shares traded on the Korea Exchange and Nextrade but also KRW 70,696,400,000,000 in net ETF purchases. As of the more recent August 7,