Nextrade's CEO Kim Hak-soo delivers a speech during an opening ceremony of "Nextrade", South Korea's secondary stock trading platform, at the Korea Financial Investment Center in Seoul on March 4, 2025. A second stock exchange opened in South Korea, ending a nearly 70-year monopoly of the country's sole exchange operator. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP) (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)