Korea Bourse Plans Longer Trading With Stocks on Record Run

South Korea’s main stock exchange plans to extend trading hours as the benchmark index powers toward President Lee Jae Myung’s election campaign target of 5,000.

Korea Exchange aims to add pre-market and after-market trading to extend opening hours to 12 a day from the current 6.5 starting in June, according to its annual plan submitted to Financial Services Commission this week. The proposal, which is in line with global trends, comes after smaller exchange Nextrade introduced pre- and after-market trade in March.