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Therefore, this segmentation can affect price discovery and create opportunities for systematic trading. Motivated by the Korean premium, this study introduces the Korean Venue Share Indicator (KVSI). Based on the price discovery literature, KVSI is an interpretable venue-level indicator that uses the relative trading volume share between Korean and global exchanges. This study integrates KVSI into the state space of multiple reinforcement learning algorithms to evaluate whether venue-level information improves trading decisions. The results show that the proposed model with KVSI achieves statistically significant improvements in cumulative return (CR), Sharpe ratio (SR), and maximum drawdown (MDD) compared to the baseline model without KVSI. It also achieves higher CR and mixed effects on risk metrics (SR, MDD) relative to benchmark strategies. Additional analyses indicate that the performance gains from KVSI are market-regime-dependent. 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