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SEOUL (Reuters) - A swarm of online traders in South Korea is taking a leaf from the Reddit horde in the United States to quash a government plan to lift a pandemic-imposed ban on short-selling, triggering a rally in the most shorted-stocks such as Celltrion on Monday.
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Celltrion is seen at company s headquarters in Incheon, South Korea, October 28, 2016. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
Almost 30,000 investors of the Korea Stockholders Alliance have come together at a membership-based forum at naver.com, signing online petitions and staging downtown demonstrations calling for permanent ban on short selling of shares.