South Korea's largest capital market IR event runs 3 weeks, featuring 25 programs and 55 listed companies
Korea Premium Weeks 2026, South Korea's largest capital market investor relations event, opened Monday in its inaugural year. The event consolidates previously scattered IR conferences and sessions into a single annual showcase designed to promote the country's capital markets to overseas investors.
Co-organized by the Financial Services Commission and Korea Exchange, the event runs Monday through Oct. 16 over three weeks. A total of 42 organizations — including stock market-related bodies, financial investment firms and media outlets — along with 55 listed companies are taking part, with roughly 25 programs scheduled in relay fashion. The event's slogan is "Gateway to Asia's most dynamic capital market."
The FSC hopes that consolidating the previously fragmented IR events and conferences will concentrate foreign investor attention on South Korea's capital markets. The country joins other major Asian economies that have launched similar national-level promotion events — Japan's government and Financial Services Agency introduced "Japan Weeks" in 2023, while Taiwan's financial authorities launched "Taiwan Weeks" in 2025.
The first week, running Monday through Friday, is designated the "Core Week." An opening ceremony Monday will be followed by policy sessions covering capital market reform, corporate governance improvement and foreign exchange market reform. Senior figures from global financial institutions are expected to attend, including representatives from Japan's Financial Services Agency, the UN Principles for Responsible Investment, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, NASDAQ, S&P Dow Jones Indices and Vanguard.
Tuesday's agenda includes discussions on the vision and challenges for a "Korea Premium era," capital market infrastructure modernization, Kosdaq competitiveness and the qualitative growth of the exchange-traded product market. Listed companies will also hold IR sessions, with Samsung Electronics, SK hynix, Doosan Enerbility, Robotis, Hanwha Aerospace, Shinhan Financial and Samsung Biologics among those presenting. One-on-one meetings between global institutional investors and domestic companies, as well as closed-door roundtables, are also on the schedule.
Wednesday will feature programs for retail investors, including seminars by market experts explaining how changes in interest rates, exchange rates and policy affect asset markets, along with IR sessions by listed companies. Promotional booths introducing financial products such as retirement pensions, individual savings accounts and ETFs will also be set up.
The second week, Oct. 6-8, will focus on growth companies and the exit market through seminars on strengthening Kosdaq competitiveness, IR sessions for Kosdaq and Konex-listed firms, and a seminar on revitalizing the venture exit market. The third week, Oct. 12-16, will feature events led by private-sector financial firms such as domestic brokerages and asset managers, along with a global bond market forum.
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