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South Korea to Hold Emergency Market Meeting After Kospi Turmoil
['Heesu Lee', 'Min Read']
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(Bloomberg) -- South Korea will hold an emergency meeting Wednesday evening to discuss the market situation after a stocks rout that has wiped billions of dollars off investors' holdings.
Lawmakers have linked the rout in part to South Korea's rollout of leveraged single-stock products in May.
Still, he maintained that leveraged exchange-traded funds were only one of several factors behind the recent market turmoil.
"We've already put in place a package of measures, but if it's needed we'll introduce additional steps to help normalize the market," Koo told lawmakers Wednesday.
"The country has turned into a casino," People Power Party lawmaker Lee Jongwook told Koo during the hearing.