30-somethings led crypto purchases at South Korean exchanges in 2021
The increased trading volume comes following the country's Financial Services Commission requiring crypto trading platforms to register as digital asset service providers before Sept. 24. Crypto users between 30-39 years old in South Korea are reportedly the demographic with the most deposits on major exchanges in the country.According to a Sunday report from the Yonhap News Agency, South Korean residents in their 30s deposited roughly 2.2 trillion KRW — $1.9 billion at the time of publication — to crypto exchanges Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, and Korbit by the end of the second quarter of....
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The South Korean state intelligence agency is now providing crypto trading platforms with information about attempts to breach their cybersecurity. The help for the country’s digital asset exchanges comes amid growing threats, local media reported. Intelligence Service Offers Cybersecurity Assistance to Major South Korean Crypto Exchanges South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) has started to alert the country’s major cryptocurrency exchanges about hacking attempts as threats of this nature are on the rise, the Yonhap news agency reported, quoting an....
The deadline for crypto exchanges and service providers in South Korea to meet requirements to stay open under the new regulation has passed. Twenty-nine cryptocurrency exchanges met the deadline to continue operations but only four of them can offer trading in Korean won.
New South Korean Crypto Regulation in Effect
The Act on Reporting and Using Specified Financial Transaction Information requires crypto exchanges to obtain Information Security Management System (ISMS) certification and submit a report to the country’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) by midnight on....
The 24 licensed crypto exchanges registered a collective average daily transaction volume of near $9.4 billion. South Korea’s crypto market grew to 55 trillion Won ($45.9 billion) by the end of 2021, as per a new study from the country’s chief financial regulator, the Financial Service Commission.South Korea is considered among the strictest crypto markets in terms of regulatory policy implementations and made regular headlines throughout 2021 for its new travel rule and Know Your Company requirements. However, the Korean crypto market has bloomed to new heights despite the regulatory....
A major South Korean TV series with crypto and blockchain-related topics is set to launch its production stage at the beginning of 2021, directed by Gemstone Film, in collaboration with firms in China and the United States. South Korean Crypto-Related TV Drama Series ‘Pumping Time’ Is Set to Start in 2021 According to Financial News, “Pumping Time,” the tentative name for the drama series, is planned for a total of 10 seasons with 20 episodes per each one. The producers estimate that each episode will have a duration of 30 minutes. Gemstone Film will allocate an....