The number of suspected illegal short selling cases being uncovered is increasing every year. Starting with 2 cases in 2020, it significantly increased to 77 cases last year, and 42 cases have already been reported to the Financial Supervisory Service this year. This trend is a result of the introduction of the Naked Short Selling Detection System (NSDS) and the complex stock market situation. The NSDS checks institutional investors' short selling transaction records in real time to enable immediate detection of illegal short selling. As the recent stock price surge and increased demand for profit-taking have led to an increase in the number of short selling transactions, more suspected cases of illegal short selling are also occurring.
