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our stock market today (1st), the stock prices of two companies, Celltrion and HLB, jumped significantly.

These companies have the largest short selling balances in KOSPI and KOSDAQ, respectively, and the stock prices of these companies soared amid the movement of individual investors against short selling.

Financial authorities are also keen to see if the war between individuals and institutions over short selling is reenacted in our stock market like the Game Stop crisis that shook the US stock market.



This is reporter Kim Jung-woo.



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A large bus with the slogans of'Abolition of short selling' and'Financial Commission dissolution'.



A coalition of 30,000 members of the individual investor's association has organized it at its own expense to promote the campaign against short selling.



In addition to promoting the bus, the Korean version of the GameStop movement was declared by mentioning the case of the US GameStop.



[Eui-jeong Jeong/CEO of the Korea Equity Investors Association: We will carry out an anti-short selling movement in the manner of US Gamestop shareholders who won the victory against short selling hedge funds, and this will be a battle against short selling.] In



fact, the association of individual investors The stock prices of Celltrion and HLB, which were designated as victims, also surged.



More than 200,000 people agree to the Blue House national petition and are raising the number of people.



The demand was made to improve the domestic short selling system by developing a system that can detect non-borrowing short selling in real time, and to extend the ban on short selling for one year.



However, regardless of corporate performance, there are also concerns that don't ask if the stock price is soaring, but if you jump into an investment style, it could lead to losses.



[Daejong Kim/Professor of Business Administration, Sejong University: The stock price reflects the company's net profit, but it distorts it.

If (individuals) buy collectively, it may be rather damaging.] The



resumption of short selling is likely to be delayed after June, such as the government ordering securities firms to complete the development of a loan stock system by June. Do it.



The Korea Exchange has a policy to take action if there are signs of illegal activities such as market price manipulation after monitoring the situation.



(Video coverage: Jang Woon-seok·Lee Seung-hwan, Video editing: Lee Seung-yeol)