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South Korea's move to suspend Bithumb over AML failures turns a local compliance case into a market-structure story. Enforcement against the country's second-largest exchange threatens to reroute retail flows, deepen venue concentration, and degrade one of crypto's most-watched regional pricing signals: the kimchi premium.
2026-3-13 12:55 | |
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Korea’s crypto outflows hit nearly 57 trillion won in Q1, with stablecoins making up almost half as users move funds to overseas exchanges. Almost half of the cryptocurrencies sent abroad from South Korea’s major crypto exchanges in Q1 were dollar-based…
2025-5-8 12:06 | |
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Seemingly every week in crypto yields another multimillion-dollar hack or exploit – and with it, reams of memes about North Korea, the supposed culprit.
2022-10-13 22:53 | |
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The market crash has led to the value of stolen crypto held by North Korea to drop by over 60% from $170 million at the start of the year The post Tumbling Price of Stolen Crypto Spells Trouble for North Korea appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2022-6-29 15:00 | |
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The crypto will be the first to be issued among S. Korea's top conglomerates.
2022-3-24 16:53 | |
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A confidential United Nations report has revealed that North Korea has been using the crypto funds stolen from exchanges to finance its weapon development, according to Reuters. Crypto Thefts Used To Finance Nukes The report that was submitted to the North Korea sanctions committee of the U.
2022-2-8 18:27 | |
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The chairman of South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC), Eun Sung-soo, has ordered the regulator’s employees involved in digital assets-related policymaking to disclose their crypto holdings by May 7, local outlet The Korea Times reported today.
2021-4-27 13:00 | |
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As a pariah state, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has been largely cut off from the international community. With few trading partners and enduring punishing international sanctions, North Korea is doubling down on crypto crime as a revenue generator.
2021-2-23 15:30 | |
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The coming calendar change has regulators rethinking how they stand in relation to cryptocurrency moving forward. Reports out of South Korea have lawmakers in the country drafting up bills for legislature that would levy taxes on capital gains earned with crypto and increase the transparency of the virtual asset market.
2019-12-17 12:00 | |
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The shut down of a major crypto exchange in South Korea in April showed the impact a prolonged bear market could have on crypto businesses. 4 of South Korea’s top 5 exchanges recorded big net losses
2019-5-17 13:35 | |
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Bae Yong-joon, arguably the most influential and widely recognized actor in South Korea featured in films like Winter Sonata and The Legend, invested in a local crypto startup called Seamon. Importance of a Public Figure Investing in the Crypto Space in South Korea According to Hankyoreh, a mainstream media outlet in South Korea, Seamon is co-founded by the Norway-based Ocean Supreme, the most dominant company in the Japanese Salmon market.
2019-3-13 17:12 | |
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CEO of Galaxy Investment Partners Mike Novogratz expressed his optimism for the future of Bitcoin to CNBC’s Crypto Trader in an interview at the Beyond Blocks Conference in Seoul, South Korea.
2018-7-24 03:04 | |
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In a new initiative, South Korea is working towards an organizational change that would create a dedicated department for establishing and regulating crypto policies with the crypto regulation agreement.
2018-7-24 23:15 | |
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Regulation South Korea’s top financial regulator is planning a major organizational restructuring that includes introducing some new crypto policy initiatives. In addition, an agreement with Chinese authorities relating to crypto and initial coin offerings has also been reached.
2018-7-23 07:51 | |
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South Korea’s top financial regulator is planning a major organizational restructuring that includes introducing some new crypto policy initiatives. A bureau dedicated to financial innovations that include cryptocurrencies is being set up.
2018-7-23 06:45 | |
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Galaxy Digital CEO and prominent Bitcoin bull Mike Novogratz described an institutional influx of capital into cryptocurrency in his keynote speech at Blockchain Week Korea — as reported by The Street.
2018-7-22 18:00 | |
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Coin holder voting, both for governance of technical features, and for more extensive use cases like deciding who runs validator nodes and who receives money from development bounty funds, is unfortunately continuing to be popular, and so it seems worthwhile for me to write another post explaining why I (and Vlad Zamfir and others) do not consider it wise for Ethereum (or really, any base-layer blockchain) to start adopting these kinds of mechanisms in a tightly coupled form in any significant way.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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The Daily In The Daily on Saturday, crypto exchange Coinbase has formed a political action committee to raise funds for US elections. Also, Ernst & Young has announced the acquisition of crypto technology and patents, and Indonesian crypto POS terminal maker Pundi X is looking to expand in South Korea with a new partnership. According
2018-7-21 15:23 | |
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In The Daily on Saturday, crypto exchange Coinbase has formed a political action committee to raise funds for US elections. Also, Ernst & Young has announced the acquisition of crypto technology and patents, and Indonesian crypto POS terminal maker Pundi X is looking to expand in South Korea with a new partnership.
2018-7-21 14:05 | |
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WBRShow is a blockchain tour organized by IDACB to establish communication between trustworthy ICO teams and the best investors. IDACB is aimed at gathering all the most perspective ICO projects together and introducing them to the investors.
2018-7-20 22:01 | |
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South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) has revealed it is setting up a department dedicated primarily to cryptocurrencies and blockchain. The FSC said the new department – dubbed the Financial Innovation Bureau – will focus on developing policy-making initiatives for the domestic blockchain and fintech industry, The Korea Times reported on Thursday. The decision to set up the
2018-7-20 21:30 | |
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The South Korean financial watchdog, Financial Services Commission (FSC), has created the Financial Innovation Bureau to oversee and nurture the crypto sector as part of the fourth industrial revolution.
2018-7-20 21:00 | |
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South Korea's Financial Services Commission has revealed it is setting up a department dedicated largely to cryptocurrencies and blockchain.
2018-7-20 18:30 | |
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Cloudbric, a well-established and award-winning cloud-based web security provider based in Seoul, South Korea is set to open its whitelist period for their upcoming initial coin offering (ICO). The ICO will go towards the.
2018-7-20 15:44 | |
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Indonesian point-of-sale (POS) terminal maker Pundi X Labs (Pundi X) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with South Korean smart cards maker Ubivelox on Thursday to support the deployment and development of its devices in South Korea, Pundi X said in a statement.
2018-7-20 13:37 | |
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Hashed, a South Korean Crypto Fund recently announced that it has made an investment in XCHNG, a blockchain platform that aims to disrupt the digital advertising business with its third quarter test launch.
2018-7-20 13:15 | |
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South Korea’s Yeongdeungpo-gu district has established a “Proposal Evaluation System” based on blockchain to improve the fairness and integrity of administrative procedures, according to a July 19 governmental press release.
2018-7-19 16:55 | |
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In 2018, within a span of two months, the largest crypto exchanges in Japan and South Korea were hacked. A New York-based cyber security firm declared more breaches are yet to come. According to BLAKFX president Robert Statica, crypto exchanges are easier to hack than most online platforms, especially for experienced hackers.
2018-7-19 10:00 | |
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Cloudbric, the web security company based in Korea which is launching a new AI-powered unified security platform for web, mobile, and crypto users announced that Goldford VC has become an ICO backer as a new strategic investor.
2018-7-19 09:20 | |
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On June 20, all deposits and withdrawals were suspended to update the platform and improve security system to avoid further threats. Initially, the bithumb team has recovered around 16$ million from the hack, but later controversy increased as the chairman of Financial Service Commission Kim Yong-bum got disappeared, and bithumb stopped all further deposits and […]
2018-7-17 19:49 | |
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Bithumb to Establish Subsidiaries in Japan and Thailand Bithumb, one of the most prominent digital currency trading platforms in South Korea, is expanding operations into Japan and Thailand. As of now, Bithumb averages a daily trading volume of $360 million, making it the second largest exchange in South Korea. For some time now, the firm […]
2018-7-16 21:05 | |
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G20 (Group of 20) is a worldwide platform for Central Banks and Governments which includes authorities from countries all over the world. G20 membership consists of; Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and the European Union.
2018-7-16 18:30 | |
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Though cryptocurrencies and blockchain applications seem to have taken the entire world by storm, there are few places where this new technology has been embraced like South Korea. In part, thanks to changing regulations within the country, the overwhelming sentiment seems to indicate that crypto will soon become fully integrated into everyday life in South Korea.
2018-7-16 16:49 | |
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In major crypto markets such as Japan and South Korea, investors are highly anticipating the approval of a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) by the end of August 2018. The post What is the Real Probability of a Bitcoin ETF? appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2018-7-16 14:00 | |
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Bithumb, the largest crypto exchange in South Korea by trading volume and user base, is expanding to Japan, the biggest market for cryptocurrency investors. The post Korea’s Largest Crypto Exchange is Moving to Japan, Outrage From Investors appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2018-7-16 05:00 | |
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Exchanges One of South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Bithumb, is expanding into Japan and Thailand. Japan Confirms Entrance Into the Crypto Space Expanding into Thailand Bithumb is currently working on obtaining regulatory approval from the Thai Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), local media reported Friday.
2018-7-16 04:46 | |
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One of South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Bithumb, is expanding into Japan and Thailand. The exchange is working on obtaining regulatory approval from the financial regulators of both countries.
2018-7-16 03:40 | |
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South Korea has always played a crucial role in crypto development and proliferation. The post Korea Blockchain Weeks Seek to Solve Some of Crypto’s Most Pressing Problems appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2018-7-15 19:00 | |
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Over two months ago, the Korea Blockchain Association (KBA) decided to initiate self-inspections into cryptocurrency industry striving to insure the digital exchanges operating in South Korea had safeguards to check themselves from potential issues such as cyber-attacks and malicious activities.
2018-7-14 00:11 | |
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12 Korean Crypto Exchanges Pass Self Regulatory Probe The Korean Blockchain Association (KBA) just announced the results of a self-regulatory review of Korean exchanges, stating that all exchanges assessed fulfill the minimum requirements established by KBA in April 2018.
2018-7-13 22:16 | |
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The biggest self-regulatory cryptocurrency body is under scrutiny of Korean industry for its investigation principles affirming 12 out of 12 digital trades screened in a recent self-administrative drive.
2018-7-13 21:41 | |
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The self-regulatory inspection of South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges is complete. Fourteen out of 23 exchanges agreed to be inspected. Twelve met the self-regulatory standards despite security flaws, raising questions of how effective the inspection is.
2018-7-13 21:51 | |
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Lawmakers in South Korea have disclosed draft bills regulating digital currencies, coin offerings and blockchain.
2018-7-13 17:16 | |
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South Korea’s National Assembly is reportedly set to witness a whirlwind of legislative efforts around cryptocurrencies in the coming days. Between July 13 and 26, members of a number of Korean political parties are expected to submit bills focused on regulating cryptocurrencies, initial coin offerings and blockchain, according to a report from The Korea Times. While
2018-7-12 23:33 | |
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Hacked Bithumb as well as OKCoin Korea, Huobi Korea and Coinone met general standards but passed cybersecurity self-regulatory requirements at a minimum level with a big gap in their results.
2018-7-12 21:07 | |
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Lawmakers in South Korea are said to be racing to make laws to regulate the sector.
2018-7-12 20:30 | |
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South Korea has taken big steps in legitimising crypto exchanges and blockchain making a better environment for the users through more regulation
2018-7-11 00:22 | |
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South Korea’s relationship with cryptocurrencies has had a tumultuous past. From the country being an important crypto market to crackdowns and imposition of strict regulations at the beginning of 2018, the authorities have frequently changed their outlook on digital currencies.
2018-7-10 13:59 | |
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Security Cryptocurrency analysts are increasingly arguing that the lack of custody services provided by leading players from within the finance industry pose a significant barrier to institutional investors seeking exposure to the cryptocurrency markets.
2018-7-10 10:30 | |
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South Korean exchange Upbit will pause Cosmos ATOM deposits and withdrawals from May 20 to support a network upgrade. Upbit announced the temporary halt via an official notice to users, stating the pause begins at 6:00 a.m. UTC on May…
PROS surged 47.8% after Upbit and Bithumb listings, with Pharos volume rising 209.6% as Korean trading access expanded.
Upbit listed Dogwifhat on KRW, BTC and USDT markets, pushing WIF higher as traders watch Solana memecoin demand in South Korea.
South Korea’s Upbit has partnered with Optimism to develop a dedicated Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain using the OP Stack. According to an announcement from the Optimism Foundation, the new network, called GIWA Chain, will operate under the Self-Managed tier of…
South Korea’s Naver Financial has delayed plans for its share swap with crypto exchange Upbit’s parent firm Dunamu. According to a regulatory filing with the country’s Financial Supervisory Service, Naver said it will hold a shareholder vote on Aug. 18,…
Upbit is a South Korean cryptocurrency exchange that mainly focuses on secure spot trading with deep KRW liquidity and strong regulatory compliance. The top features of Upbit exchange are spot The post Upbit Review 2026: Is This South Korean Crypto Exchange Legal? appeared first on CryptoNinjas.