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Digital assets — Korea Regulation Monitor
What changed in Korea's digital-asset regime.
What changed
- 2026-08-24Korea Amends AML Reporting Rules for Virtual Asset Service Providers, Effective 20 August 2026
- 2026-08-24Korea Extends Travel Rule to All Virtual Asset Transfers and Tightens VASP Registration Screening
- 2026-08-17Bill Filed to Delay Korea's Crypto "Other Income" Tax Start Date from 2027 to 2030
Enforcement log
Enforcement actions and effective dates
- 2026-04Korea's financial intelligence unit published a sanction against a virtual-asset service provider for anti-money-laundering failures.
- 2026-03Korea's financial intelligence unit published corrective requirements for 2 virtual-asset service providers following an AML inspection.
- 2026-01Korea's financial intelligence unit published a sanction against a virtual-asset service provider for anti-money-laundering failures.
- 2025-12Korea's financial intelligence unit published a sanction against a virtual-asset service provider for anti-money-laundering failures.
- 2025-02Korea's financial intelligence unit published corrective requirements for a virtual-asset service provider following an AML inspection.
What we're watching
VASP notification
KoFIU
Korea-directed business · totality of circumstances · amended refusal grounds effective 2026-08-20
VASP real-name account gate
KoFIU
fiat-to-virtual-asset exchange
Virtual Asset User Protection Act
FSC / FSS
effects in Korea · no numeric threshold
Cross-border virtual-asset transfer registration
Ministry of Finance and Economy (MOFE)
effective 2026-12-03
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