May 20, 2026 at 2:45 AM UTCInvestors will soon have another way to play the wild gyrations in South Korea’s stock market.The nation’s main equity exchange is planning to roll out weekly options on single stocks in June, expiring on Thursdays, according to people familiar with the matter who asked not to be named as the information isn’t public. The bourse is also working on launching monthly and weekly contracts on exchange-traded funds later this year, and on adding Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday expiries for weeklies tied to the Kospi 200 and Kosdaq 150 indexes, the people said. Those currently expire only on Mondays and Thursdays.
Stocks & Investing·May 20, 2026
Korea Exchange Is Said to Launch Weekly Options on Single Stocks
Investors will soon have another way to play the wild gyrations in South Korea’s stock market.
Bloomberg Markets1 min readPrimary source
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1-point summary · 1 minInvestors will soon have another way to play the wild gyrations in South Korea’s stock market.
- Investors will soon have another way to play the wild gyrations in South Korea’s stock market.
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