South Korean brokerages make W4.3tr in Q1, nearly half of last year's total

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• ·Net profit jumps 77% on-year as stock trading boom lifts brokerage commissions, trading volumes.
• ·Headquarters of the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) South Korea's securities firms posted a record quarterly net profit of 4.33 trillion won ($2.63 billion) in the first quarter this year, driven by a surge in stock trading activity, Financial Supervisory Service data showed Friday.
• ·According to the Financial Supervisory Service's provisional operating results, the combined net profit of 61 brokerages rose 77.1 percent on-year to 4.33 trillion won in the January-March period from 2.44 trillion won a year earlier.
• ·The figure more than doubled from 1.86 trillion won in the previous quarter, rising 132.6 percent over the three-month period.
• ·The first-quarter profit accounted for 44.9 percent of the industry's record annual net profit of 9.65 trillion won posted in 2025, meaning brokerages earned nearly half of last year's profit in just one quarter.