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South Korean anti-money-laundering law setting financial transaction reporting duties, including the licensing regime for virtual asset service providers.
The KRW1 white paper says issuance and redemption sit inside the anti-money-laundering registration BDACS already holds. Korea has not legislated who may issue a won stablecoin, and regulators plan to look into the wording.
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Korea's FIU accepted BitGo Korea's registration on the 18th, the first foreign digital-asset firm to register directly through a domestic subsidiary instead of buying one.
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The KoFIU and the Financial Supervisory Service are examining how KRWQ Gifts turns a won-pegged offshore token into mobile vouchers at about 90 Korean brands with no KYC, roughly three weeks after a newspaper reported it.
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A ten-lawmaker bill would let anyone report unregistered crypto firms to Korea's FIU, a 2,567-investigator agency opens in October, and Polymarket has been called illegal gambling.
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Ten lawmakers want the FIU to file its own criminal complaints against unregistered crypto operators. Police had dropped 23 of 25 referrals, mostly because the targets sat overseas.
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