There has been a major move by Korean exchanges recently. It is understood that the main exchanges in Korea are setting up special working groups and plan to significantly adjust trading session arrangements.

What is the specific plan? In simple terms, they want to introduce pre-market and after-hours trading mechanisms, expanding the original trading window from the current 09:00-15:30 to 07:00 in the morning to 19:00, or from 08:00 to 20:00. Currently, the after-hours window is only 15:40-18:00, which clearly cannot meet the needs of different traders.

What does this change mean? Extending trading hours by 12 hours provides market participants with more operational space. Early traders won't have to rush to place orders at the opening, and evening investors can continue to participate in the market. From the perspective of market liquidity and trading activity, such adjustments usually have a positive impact—more trading opportunities and more thorough price discovery.