Lee orders financial regulator to boost transparency in stock trading

President Lee Jae Myung on Friday instructed the financial regulator to make more efforts to improve transparency in stock transactions, saying that a lack of investor confidence in local stock markets has affected the foreign exchange market. Investors have kept demanding a discount on Korean shares due to lax regulations on unfair stock trading and opaque management ethics, Lee told a policy briefing by the Financial Services Commission. "Distrust in the local stock market is affecting the for