Last Month, Foreigners Net Bought 2.5 Trillion KRW in Domestic Stock Market... 9 Consecutive Months

Financial Supervisory Service 'July Foreign Securities Investment Trends'

Yeouido Financial Supervisory Service building (right) and securities district buildings in Seoul. Photo by Younghan Heo younghan@

Last month, foreigners continued their net buying in the domestic stock market for the ninth consecutive month, purchasing approximately 2.5 trillion KRW worth of stocks.

According to the "July Foreign Securities Investment Trends" released by the Financial Supervisory Service on the 13th, foreigners net purchased 2.496 trillion KRW worth of listed stocks last month.

They net purchased 2.307 trillion KRW in the KOSPI market and 189 billion KRW in the KOSDAQ market.

Foreigners have maintained net buying in the domestic stock market since November of last year.

By country, the UK (1.3 trillion KRW) and Germany (500 billion KRW) were net buyers, while Australia (-500 billion KRW) and Singapore (-100 billion KRW) were net sellers.

As of the end of last month, foreigners held 852.7 trillion KRW worth of listed stocks, accounting for 30.1% of the market capitalization.

In the bond market, foreigners net withdrew for the second consecutive month.

Foreigners net purchased 2.947 trillion KRW worth of listed bonds and received 3.316 trillion KRW in matured repayments, resulting in a net withdrawal of 369 billion KRW.

As of the end of last month, foreigners held 252 trillion KRW worth of listed bonds, representing 9.8% of the outstanding amount.