Korea’s longer trading push fuels hiring, labor tensions

South Korean brokerages and asset managers are racing to prepare for longer stock trading hours, scrambling to hire staff and overhaul systems as the Korea Exchange pushes ahead with one of the country’s biggest market structure changes in years. But the transition is also exposing growing strains across the financial industry, with labor unions protesting heavier workloads and market participants warning that key trading rules for exchange-traded funds remain unresolved just months before launc

By The Korea Herald