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ratings
2 stories tagged “ratings”, each from official Korean data with its source and timestamp.
89 Sell calls in 12 years: Korean brokers' rating scale has no downside
Korean brokers issue tens of thousands of ratings and almost never say sell — 89 sell calls in twelve years. When a scale only points one way, what does a 'buy' actually tell you? We count the ratings and question the scale.
Korean brokers rate Buy 79.7% of the time, Sell just 0.06%
Across 6,372 broker reports in 2026 the market rated Buy on 79.7% and Sell on 0.06%. Of 13 houses that rated 200-plus reports, 10 issued no Sell at all. The Sell rate has sat near zero for over a decade.