This fund signals investor demand for South Korean stocks may be returning after ugly rout

South Korean stocks have entered a bear market. Will the slide continue? - AFP via Getty Images After an ugly start to the week for the South Korean equities market, signs of a potential recovery were emerging on Wednesday. The iShares MSCI South Korea ETF EWY, a U.S.-listed exchange-traded fund that tracks an index of South Korean stocks, rebounded a sharp 1.5% on Wednesday. That’s after the ETF had tumbled more than 10% on Monday — its biggest one-day decline since the “COVID crash” in 2020 — before co ...