[South Korea's Single Stock Leveraged ETF Regulation Implemented for One Week: Trading Activity Significantly Cools, Daily Trading Volume Drops Below 1 Trillion KRW] According to Deep Tide TechFlow on August 7, citing South Korean media outlet Daum, one week after the implementation of regulatory measures on single stock leveraged and inverse ETFs in South Korea, trading activity for related products has significantly cooled, with daily trading volumes falling below 1 trillion KRW for two consecutive trading days. Data from the Korea Exchange (KRX) shows that on August 7, the combined trading volume of 16 single stock leveraged and inverse ETFs in the South Korean market was 941.2 billion KRW, following the previous trading day's 919.8 billion KRW, marking the second consecutive day below 1 trillion KRW. On the day before the regulation took effect (July 30), the trading volume of the 16 related ETFs reached as high as 12.45 trillion KRW. On the first day of regulation (July 31), it plummeted to 3.15 trillion KRW and has continued to decline since, dropping to 1.39 trillion KRW on August 3 and 1.26 trillion KRW on August 4, eventually falling below 1 trillion KRW in recent days. At the same time, the share of single stock leveraged and inverse ETFs in South Korea's ETF market trading volume has also significantly decreased, dropping to 5.6% on August 7, compared to a previous share of 30% to 40% before the regulation. The market believes that the decline in trading volume is primarily due to the new regulatory measures implemented on July 31. The new rules raised the capital threshold for individual retail investors to participate in single stock leveraged ETFs, increasing the minimum margin requirement from 10 million KRW to 30 million KRW in cash.