Hwang Seong-yeop (황성엽), head of the Korea Financial Investment Association, presented a 10-year blueprint for South Korea’s capital markets and five priority tasks on his 100th day in office. He plans to improve market structure by supporting innovative companies, overhauling retirement pensions, expanding wealth management, driving digital finance innovation and strengthening global competitiveness. He also highlighted possible passive inflows tied to WGBI inclusion and measures to improve foreign investor convenience.

Korea Investment Securities said on April 3 it will provide additional open-source code to support in-house trading development using its OpenAPI. The company already offers free OpenAPI-based sample code and a backtesting function via GitHub. It added an investment strategy creation feature using indicators such as moving averages and momentum, along with basic examples. It also strengthened AI-linked functions for natural-language inputs in AI development environments.