South Korea’s Tax Agency Eyes Private Custodians for Seized Crypto Following Mnemonic Leak
South Korea’s National Tax Service (NTS) is moving to hand off seized virtual assets to private custody providers after a...
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South Korea tax agency seeks private crypto custodian after security lapses
South Korea’s National Tax Service (NTS) is moving to select a private custody provider for seized crypto assets after a...
ETHFI Price Today: Upbit KRW Listing Causes 20% Spike as Arthur Hayes Accumulates
Ether.fi’s ETHFI token has been added to South Korea’s largest crypto exchange with a new ETHFI/KRW pair, giving it direct...
Crypto Payments Are Going Mainstream: Can Tourists Turn Into Daily Users In South Korea?
Centralized exchange Crypto.com has partnered with KG Inicis, South Korea’s largest payment gateway and value added network (VAN) provider, to...
South Korea Fines Bithumb $24M, Imposes 6-Month Partial Suspension Over AML Violations
South Korea’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has fined cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb 36.8 billion won ($24.6 million) and ordered a six-month...
Upbit Lists ICP as Internet Computer Expands
South Korea’s largest crypto exchange, Upbit, announced it will list Internet Computer Protocol (ICP), offering trading pairs in Korean won...
South Korea’s Bithumb faces six-month partial suspension over AML failures
One of South Korea’s top crypto exchanges, Bithumb, received a preliminary notice from the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of a...
Korean stock market plunges 12% in historic one-day crash
South Korea’s KOSPI plunged 12% on Wednesday in its largest single-day drop on record, wiping out roughly $625 billion in...
Trading Halted in Seoul: Kospi Suffers Historic Sell-off Amid Iran War Jitters
South Korea’s Kospi index plummeted over 12% on March 4, triggering emergency circuit breakers as Middle East tensions and artificial...
Upbit Lists EDGE, Expands Trading Options
South Korea’s top crypto exchange, Upbit, will list the EDGE token with trading pairs in KRW, BTC, and USDT, expanding...
South Korea Reviews Seized Crypto After Major Errors
South Korea’s government has launched a high-level review of how seized digital assets are managed after two major mishaps exposed...
South Korea’s National Tax Service Publishes Seed Phrase Photo, Sparks Wallet Breach
South Korea’s National Tax Service (NTS) accidentally published a cryptocurrency wallet’s recovery phrase in a Feb. 26 press release, enabling...
Upbit Lists Seeker (SKR) and Espresso (ESP)
South Korea’s top exchange, Upbit, has added Seeker (SKR) and Espresso (ESP), while imposing temporary trading restrictions to stabilize early...
South Korea’s Hanwha Backs US Blockchain Firm Kresus With $13M Investment
Blockchain infrastructure company Kresus secured about $13 million from South Korea’s Hanwha Investment and Securities to expand enterprise digital wallets,...
South Korea’s Mirae Asset moves to take control of crypto exchange Korbit in $92M deal
Mirae Asset Group, South Korea’s financial services giant, has agreed to acquire a 92% stake in crypto exchange Korbit for...
