SEOUL, March 29 (Reuters) - South Korea may consider
easing stock short-selling rules later this year if the current
financial markets turmoil ends soon, the head of the Financial
Supervisory Service said.
"If the dust of this financial turmoil is cleared within a
couple of months, we will look into the deregulation of
short-selling (rules), hopefully this year," Governor Lee
Bok-hyun of the regulator, said in an interview with Bloomberg
TV.
He did not elaborate on conditions or direction of the
changes in the rules. South Korea maintains a strict set of
regulations on stock short-selling for fear of aggravating
fluctuations of prices.
(Reporting by Choonsik Yoo; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)
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