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As KOSPI slid in October, Korean analysts cut more target prices than they raised — and still said Buy
We counted every report in a month of Korean broker research. Over 15–23 October, target-price cuts outran raises 35 to 21, reversing late September's 10 to 3. Not one of the 728 reports said Sell.
Korean analysts didn't just stop saying sell. They stopped saying hold.
Across 55,580 rated broker reports since 2014, the neutral rating has fallen from 9.7% to 3.3% of all calls. The collapse happened in two steps, in 2018 and 2020, and it shows up inside individual firms — not just in the market average.
Korean brokerages posted 26,051 stock reports in three years. Twenty-six said sell.
A complete census of every company report published to Korea's most-read retail research board finds sell ratings at 0.114 percent — one for every 838 buys. Thirteen of the twenty firms never issued a single one.