Yonhap reports Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon criticized the government for permitting
leveraged derivatives that have driven extreme stock-market volatility and for
President Lee’s ‘active debt relief’ proposal, urging prompt structural
measures. He said the KOSPI has triggered temporary automated-trading
restrictions 37 times so far this year, exceeding the 26 triggers recorded
during the entire 2008 global financial crisis. Oh added the government approved
single-stock leveraged products despite knowing their large risks and then stood
by as retail investors’ assets evaporated, producing the current market turmoil.