Korea Retail Trading Boom Scales New Peak With Record Buying
- Individuals buy net $46 billion in Kospi stocks so far in 2021
- Purchases exceed 2020 total, help offset institutional exodus
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Less than six months into the year, South Korean retail traders have already bought more local stocks than they did in all of 2020, as a pandemic boom in individual investing shows no signs of abating.