Watching the business news first thing is a new routine for 12-year-old South Korean Kwon Joon, as he dreams of becoming the next Warren Buffett after earning stellar returns of 43% from a hobby picked up just last year: buying stocks reut.rs/2YWc7TM 1/6 
Kwon pestered his mother to open a retail trading account last April with savings of $22,400 as seed money, just as the benchmark KOSPI index began recovering from its biggest dip in a decade 2/6
'My role model is Warren Buffett,' said Kwon, who rode the steepest jump by year-end among MSCI’s country indexes 3/6
South Korea’s rookie investors like Kwon, who pursues 'value investing' in blue chip shares with funds garnered from gifts, trading mini-car toys and running vending machines, have led the blistering rise of retail trade amid the coronavirus pandemic 4/6
More retail investors are teenagers or even younger, making up more than two-thirds of the total value traded in the nation’s shares, versus less than 50% in 2019 5/6
The trend has grown as equity markets lure parents disillusioned with the education system and millennials working from home. @ckim170 has more reut.rs/3cTTkjY 6/6
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