South Korea

South Korea's Financial Services Commission (FSC) has revealed it is setting up a department dedicated primarily to cryptocurrencies and blockchain. The new department dubbed...

Ethereum has gotten a lot of attention from investors these past few weeks thanks to the steady surge in price, but price analysis reveals...

South Korea fines cryptocurrency exchanges not abiding with privacy guidelines South Korea is increasingly regulating the cryptocurrency market in order to avoid the usage of...

South Korean giants and owners of the popular messaging app Kakao Talk, Akamai are set to launch a subsidiary with a focus on developing...

South Korea is one of the few countries which have banned ICOs altogether. Currently, it seems like the government of South Korea is trying...

The Bank of Korea (BOK), South Korea’s central bank has declared that it does not plan to issue a central bank digital currency (CBDC)...

Bithumb, one of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges in South Korea, has suspended the creation of new virtual accounts on its platform. This has been...

The Jeju Island region of South Korea is reportedly seeking approval to establish a Free Zone for Initial Coin Offerings (ICO). According to the...

Upbit is the only member of the “big four” cryptocurrency exchange platforms in South Korea to record profits for 2018. The big four refers...

New reports show that South Korea may ease its ban on ICOs soon.   In September, the Financial Services Commission in South Korea, took action to...

Bithumb cryptocurrency exchange will resume registration of new accounts after it reached an agreement to renew ties with its partner bank, according to reports...

The leading cryptocurrency in the market, Bitcoin and its second, Ethereum, have both started trading in red losing about 10% of recent gains. The...

On the 30th of March, the subsidiary of a Beijing-based provider of cryptocurrency trading services, Huobi, announced its official launch in South Korea. Covering 208...

South Korea’s Ministry of Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and Startups (MSS) will exclude cryptocurrency exchanges from the Venture Enterprise Classification. According to a press...

MoneyTap mobile app is being launched by 61 bank Japanese consortium. The banks will be using the Ripple protocol in order to instantaneously transfer...

South Korean financial regulator-South Korea will support cryptocurrency transactions: South Korea is one of the countries which are at the forefront when it comes...

If there was any doubt about the legitimacy and liquidity of Korean cryptocurrency exchange, UPbit, it was put to rest on Saturday, August 4...

South Koreans are already at the forefront when it came to investing in cryptocurrencies. Recently, however, South Koreans have also started investing in cryptocurrency...

Governments acknowledging cryptocurrency. Up until a few months back, most of the governments just ignored cryptocurrencies. However, after the recent astronomical rise in cryptocurrencies,...