[South Korea Tightens Leverage ETF Rules on First Day, Trading Volume Plummets by 75%] BlockBeats News, July 31, according to South Korean media reports, on the first day of restrictions implemented by South Korea's financial regulatory authorities on single-stock leverage ETFs, the trading volume of related products dropped to one-fourth of the previous day's level. Data from South Korea's trading platform (KRX) on single-stock leverage ETF transactions today shows that on the first day of the new regulations, the total trading volume of 16 single-stock leverage and inverse ETFs was 3.3071 trillion Korean won. This figure represents a sharp decline of 75.3% compared to the previous day's 12.4485 trillion Korean won. Compared to the average daily trading volume of 12.27 trillion Korean won in July, the stringent regulatory measures by financial authorities have clearly had an immediate effect in curbing capital flows. Excluding inverse products, the trading volume of 14 major single-stock leverage ETFs also fell by 64.4%, dropping from the previous day's 6.9354 trillion Korean won to 2.4686 trillion Korean won.