South Korea’s main stock exchange starts longer evening trading on Monday, allowing shares to trade later than in typical Asian market hours. Korea Exchange enables trading through 8pm for nearly all local stocks, a change aimed at attracting and retaining investor interest during additional time windows.
The move breaks with common regional trading-hour patterns and reflects Korea’s stated ambition to move toward a 24-hour trading model over time. Bloomberg frames the initiative as a test of global investor appetite, linking the extended sessions to expectations about demand from overseas participants.
While both outlets describe the same operational change, they emphasize different motivations: Bloomberg highlights the broader effort to draw sustained participation from international investors, while Free Malaysia Today focuses on the immediate expansion to cover almost all local stocks and the longer-term goal of approaching round-the-clock trading.
