South Korea

South Korea is moving ahead with preparations to introduce taxation on cryptocurrency income despite ongoing attempts to overturn the policy through legislation and a public petition. While the National Tax...

South Korea is restoring blockchain to its economic policy agenda, although artificial intelligence remains the government’s leading growth priority for late 2026. The renewed strategy combines stablecoin regulation, tokenized government...

South Korea’s Supreme Court has proposed updating the country’s Civil Execution Rules to establish formal procedures for seizing crypto assets when courts need to enforce their decisions. Until now, courts...

The Korea Exchange (KRX) has introduced new listing rule changes that tighten oversight of companies that entered the KOSDAQ market through the technology special listing program.  Under the revised framework,...

The South Korean Financial Services Commission (FSC) has decided to report two cases involving virtual asset market price manipulation to investigative authorities.  Two Cases of Market Manipulation According to a...

The Bank of Korea (BOK) is considering expanding asset tokenization beyond deposits and central bank money to include government bonds. The move follows the successful completion of the first phase...

South Korea’s traditional financial firms are moving deeper into the cryptocurrency industry, with another major brokerage now exploring an investment in one of the country’s largest digital asset exchanges. According...

South Korea’s central bank has issued its clearest warning yet that cryptocurrency markets are no longer safely separated from the country’s mainstream financial system. The Bank of Korea’s Financial Stability...

South Korean financial markets suffered a sharp selloff on Tuesday after lawmakers discussed a proposal that could tax unrealized gains on stocks and real estate. The discussion rattled investors and...

Cross-border cryptocurrency transfers through South Korea’s exchanges have expanded nearly fivefold in three years, outpacing growth in traditional bank remittances. Data from lawmaker Kim Sang-hoon’s office showed overseas exchange transfers...

South Korea’s benchmark KOSPI Index fell sharply by almost 10% today, which was one of its steepest single day falls ever. The stock market fall took away billions from the...

South Korea is expanding its digital-finance initiatives by integrating tokenized deposits more closely with the banking system while advancing regulatory reforms for emerging financial technologies. Recent developments span Project Hangang’s...

Toss Bank, South Korea’s third-largest internet-only bank with 15 million customers, signed a strategic memorandum of understanding with the Solana Foundation in Seoul on June 19, marking the first direct...

South Korea is considering expanding fintech firms’ role in cross-border crypto transfers as it drafts an enforcement decree under the revised Foreign Exchange Transactions Act. The government is reviewing registration...

South Korean retail investors directed more than $800 million into SpaceX shares on the company’s first day of public trading, making it the most-purchased U.S. stock among local individual investors....

South Korea’s cryptocurrency market is slowing in trading activity even as institutional development continues to expand. A new report from CoinGecko shows the sector is gradually shifting away from speculative...

South Korean financial authorities have backed away from a controversial proposal that would have forced crypto exchanges to automatically report transfers above 10 million won ($7,300) involving overseas crypto platforms...

South Korea’s Digital Asset Exchange Alliance (DAXA) has established mandatory compliance standards requiring the country’s major cryptocurrency exchanges to detect and invalidate API keys suspected of being improperly shared or...

Samsung Securities, Samsung SDS, and Samsung Card are moving deeper into South Korea’s digital-asset sector by purchasing a $408 million stake in Dunamu, the operator of Upbit. The three Samsung...

South Korean prosecutors have filed the country’s first criminal prosecution tied to a decentralized exchange rug pull case after charging a group accused of manipulating the Solana-based meme coin CATFI...

South Korea’s National Assembly is now required to review a petition demanding the removal of the country’s planned crypto tax after the petition crossed the 50,000-signature threshold this week. The...

Tether has filed new trademark applications in South Korea, placing its name and logo into the country’s public intellectual property system. The filing was submitted on May 14, according to...

South Korea’s KOSPI index fell 3.9%, as investors sold technology shares. The decline erased about ₩235 trillion ($160 billion) in market value in one session. Analysts linked the drop to...

South Korean banking giant Hana Bank is making a major push into the digital asset industry after approving a massive investment in Dunamu, the company behind the country’s largest cryptocurrency...

South Korea is expanding its response to crypto-linked financial crime as tax authorities and police move on two connected fronts. The National Tax Service is building an AI-based virtual asset...