Korea Exchange Equity-Linked Warrant Market Opens On December 1

Date 02/12/2005

Korea Exchange (KRX) opened the equity-linked warrant (ELW) market on December 1 by listing 34 ELWs issued by 8 securities companies.

A total of 34 ELWs (total value: 183.4 billion won) issued by 8 securities firms were listed on KRX including 5 warrants based on KOSPI 200 and 29 on individual stocks.

Issuers: 8

Good Morning Shinhan Securities
Daishin Securities
Daewoo Securities
Samsung Securities
Woori Securities
Hana Securities
Hyundai Securities
Korea Investment & Securities

Underlying stocks: 11 blue chip stocks

Samsung Electronics: 9
Hyundai Motors: 5
Kookmin Bank: 4
KEPCO: 2
KT: 2 Hynix: 1
SK: 1
LG Philips LCD: 1
Hyundai Heavy Industries: 1
Samsung SDI: 1