SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s tax agency has imposed 80.3 billion won (US$69.2 million) in withholding tax on Bithumb Korea, according to the largest shareholder of Bithumb Holdings. Vidente Co., the largest shareholder of Bithumb Holdings, said in a regulatory filing on Friday that it confirmed the decision by the National Tax [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb has signed a deal with a U.S. fintech company to set up a security token exchange in America, industry sources said Thursday. The agreement with SeriesOne calls for Bithum to invest in and provide technical support for the establishment of the envisioned security [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, Bithumb, has been sold to Singapore-based BK Global Consortium, industry insiders said Friday. BK Global finalized its contract with the digital money exchange’s largest shareholder, BTC Korea Holdings, on Thursday to buy 50 percent plus 1 stake for 400 billion won (US$352.5 million), according [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, Bithumb, said Wednesday it lost 35 billion won (US$31.5 million) worth of cryptocurrencies in a hacking attack, highlighting concerns that cryptocurrency exchanges are vulnerable to cyber attacks. The theft took place between Tuesday night and dawn on Wednesday, Bithumb said in a statement. Bithumb [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — As warnings of a bursting bubble and toughening state regulations have led to a drastic downturn of South Korea’s digital currency market, local exchanges are struggling over how to remain viable going forward. Some have moved to diversify their businesses by making the most out of blockchain technology, but [...]
SEOUL, March 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Online cryptocurrency services have come a long way since recording fewer than a million visitors per month early last year. Thanks to soaring valuations of bitcoin and other currencies starting in August, the once unheralded sector’s web traffic has surged since then, welcoming 5.09 million visitors in January according [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s “kimchi premium” — a reference to the 15 to 25 percent premium on Bitcoin prices locally compared with foreign markets — is now reversed, with the price of one unit of the most widely known cryptocurrency dropping below valuations abroad. According to Bithumb, South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The government said Monday it will collect up to 24.2 percent of corporate and local income taxes from South Korea’s cryptocurrency exchanges this year. The Seoul government has been striving to rein in the virtual currency frenzy in Asia’s fourth-largest economy while contemplating a bill to ban cryptocurrency exchanges. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite South Korea’s seven-figure userbase for cryptocurrency apps, a relatively small surge in domestic users of Hong Kong service Binance in the past week has industry watchers wondering whether local investors, increasingly hemmed in by government regulations, will begin an exodus towards foreign exchanges. According to app research firm [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The Financial Supervisory Service (FSC) has crafted a rewards-and-penalties system to persuade cryptocurrency investors to provide identification information prior to conducting transactions. An individual at one of South Korea’s financial regulatory agencies said, “Since banning cryptocurrency transactions outright will take a considerable amount of time, [the FSC] will look [...]