The most active 10% of Daishin's customers contribute 70% of its business, and day-traders have become the centre of the firm's marketing efforts.

ECONOMIST: Korean finance

Fully 70% of the business that Daishin now handles is online.

ECONOMIST: Korean finance

Advertisements stress the reliability and speed of Daishin's trading system.

ECONOMIST: Korean finance

"The North Korea risk has never before succeeded in reversing the Korean stock market's course, other than brief pullbacks, and every such pullback was a buying opportunity, " Daniel Cho, head of research at Daishin Securities said in emailed comments.

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