Due to COVID-19... Unfair Trade Prevention Training Conducted Online

In May, 1,303 Participants from 119 Companies Already Attended

Provided by Korea Exchange

[Asia Economy Reporter Minwoo Lee] The Korea Exchange will conduct online training to prevent unfair trading for executives and employees of listed companies.

The Exchange's Market Surveillance Committee announced on the 7th that it will change the existing on-site unfair trading prevention training to an online format in accordance with the government's social distancing campaign to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19).

Participants will listen for 1 hour and 40 minutes through the 'Multicampus' platform to the following: ▲ Unfair Trading Regulation Part 1 (50 minutes) ▲ Unfair Trading Regulation Part 2 (50 minutes) ▲ Shareholding Change Reporting (20 minutes) ▲ Introduction to Compliance Support Activities (10 minutes).

The training targets executives and employees of listed companies to prevent unfair trading such as insider trading. This month, a total of 1,303 people from 119 companies participated in the online training, including 681 from 50 companies in the KOSPI market, 568 from 59 companies in the KOSDAQ market, and 54 from 10 companies in the KONEX market. This accounts for 5.3% of the 2,262 listed companies in the KOSPI, KOSDAQ, and KONEX markets as of the end of last month.

An official from the Exchange stated, "We plan to continue online training until the COVID-19 situation stabilizes."

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