Methodology · South Korea

How the South Korea tracker is built. Data is official and read on every build.

Sources

• KoFIU notice “가상자산사업자 신고 현황(2026.9.30. 기준)” and its Excel attachment “가상자산사업자 신고에 관한 정보공개현황(2026.9.30. 기준).xlsx”: every reported virtual asset service provider with company, business registration number, reported activities, dates of filing, acceptance, change reports and renewal, and ex-officio cancellations. Its footnote lists the operators whose report expired without renewal.
• FSC release of 24 Jun 2026 (PDF attachment), annex 1: 40 unregistered operators reported to investigative agencies, with website and date.
• FSC card news of 15 Oct 2026 (websites blocked) and FSC English release of 17 Jul 2024 (Virtual Asset User Protection Act).

Source Hierarchy

1. official KoFIU, FSC.
2. company none used.
3. press · secondary none used.

Names

The FIU publishes Korean names. Latin service names on this site are our romanisation, or the brand where it is Latin already (e.g. Crypto.com, BTX); company names are shown exactly as published. We do not infer ownership or group links between a Korean business and a foreign brand.

Labels

• Reported to FIU (accepted): on the FIU list. Trading or brokerage: activities include (가) buy/sell or (마) brokerage; custody and transfer only: (다) and (라) only.
• Registration expired: named in the FIU footnote on expired, unrenewed reports.
• FSC list: reported to investigators: in annex 1 of the FSC release.
• On neither official list: global brands we checked against both lists. This is not a finding that they serve Korean residents.

Limits

• The FSC's table shows the date reported as merged cells. We assign each date to the rows it spans in the PDF layout; the groups (16, 1, 6, 2, 1, 1, 1 and 12 rows) are checked on every build, and the last group matches the 12 operators the FSC says were referred on 10 June 2026.
• Names of the 27 websites blocked in October 2026 were not published in the FSC post and are not covered.
• The FIU updates its list monthly; the date of the list is shown on every page.

Corrections

Write to press@vasptracker.com with the page and the source. Published corrections: none.