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South Korea stock market historical data

884 listings across KRX. Daily history back to first listing, minute bars from capture forward, one page per symbol.

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KRX trading day, Monday to Friday

09:00 to 15:30 KST00:00 to 06:30 UTC

KOSPI, KOSDAQ, priced in KRW, settling T+2.

1956
Founded in Busan (headquarters) and Seoul
2,700
Listed companies
884
Symbol pages on DataCedar

South Korea key facts

  • South Korea's stock market trades on KRX, priced in KRW; its headline indices are KOSPI, KOSDAQ.
  • Korea Exchange, founded 1956 in Busan (headquarters) and Seoul, trades 09:00 to 15:30 KST, Monday to Friday, regulated by Financial Services Commission (FSC) and Financial Supervisory Service (FSS).
  • DataCedar covers 884 South Korea listings with a price history page and an API call each.
  • Daily bars run back to each symbol's first sourced session; minute bars run from the day capture began for the symbol and are never backfilled.

About KRX

Full name
Korea Exchange
Location
Busan (headquarters) and Seoul, South Korea
Founded
1956
Regulator
Financial Services Commission (FSC) and Financial Supervisory Service (FSS)
Trading hours
09:00 to 15:30 KST
Trading days
Monday to Friday
Time zone
Asia/Seoul
Currency
KRW
Settlement
T+2
Ticker convention
Six digit codes (005930 Samsung Electronics, 000660 SK hynix)
Headline indices
KOSPI, KOSDAQ
Listed
about 2,700 listed companies across KOSPI and KOSDAQ (2025)
Market capitalisation
about USD 2 trillion (2025)
  • Formed in 2005 by merging the Korea Stock Exchange, the KOSDAQ market and the futures exchange.
  • KOSPI is the main board and index; KOSDAQ is the growth market, comparable to Nasdaq in its origins.
  • Retail investors account for an unusually large share of turnover, and the market has daily price limits of 30 percent.
  • KRX publishes daily market data; intraday history is licensed through its data service.

About South Korea market data on DataCedar

South Korea trades on KRX, priced in KRW, and its headline indices are KOSPI, KOSDAQ. DataCedar stores one daily bar per trading session for every listing, back to the first session it can source, and one minute bar per trading minute from the day capture begins for that symbol, all under one schema and one API.

Every one of the 884 listings has a page with its returns, records and year by year table; pages with enough traded history are in the sitemap, the rest are reachable from the A to Z lists. Tell us which symbols you need; requests move the queue. See pricing and every exchange.

South Korea stock data by API

One call per symbol, the same schema on every exchange: timeframe 1Min to 1Day, adjustment raw or all, start and end. See the bars endpoint.

curl "https://api.datacedar.com/v3/stocks/000020/bars?timeframe=1Day&adjustment=all&limit=50000" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY"

ExchangesSouth Korea exchanges and how to get the data

Each exchange has its own page: trading hours, ticker convention, indices, and the symbols A to Z once it is live.

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South Korea market data

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