Launching Markets for Stock Index Futures and Options: Case of Korea

Yu-Kyung Kim

Istanbul Stock Exchange Review, 1998, vol. 2, issue 5, 61-74

Abstract: This paper discusses experiences on launching Korea’s first-ever regulated derivatives market, namely stock index futures, on May 3, 1996, and subsequent opening of a stock index options market on July 7, 1997. It illustrates what went on as the Korea Stock Exchange was making a decision on its opening and describes the current status of the derivatives market.

Date: 1998
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