The largest political celebration in South Korea, the Democratic Party, has launched a Digital Asset Committee centered on creating cryptocurrency insurance policies and selling trade progress.
The committee held its inaugural assembly on the National Assembly Members’ Hall in Seoul on May 13, the native information company News1 reported.
During its first assembly, the committee highlighted the significance of resolving regulatory uncertainty and addressing burning points like stablecoin regulation amid the push for US-dollar stablecoins by the US authorities.
The new committee joins related organizations in South Korea, together with the Virtual Asset Committee launched in late 2024 and one other public-private crypto activity pressure introduced in 2022, each initiated by the Financial Services Commission (FSC).
Exchanges like Upbit and Bithumb concerned
The management of the Digital Asset Committee contains South Korean officers and politicians, equivalent to National Assembly Chairman Min Byeong-deok, who joined the committee as chairman.
Additionally, the group options standing common election committee Chairman Yoon Yeo-joon, Muksanism Committee Chairman Maeng Seong-gyu, National Assembly member Kim Byeong-gi and former National Assembly Chairman Kim Jeong-woo.
According to a report by ChosunBiz, the committee may also embrace participation of executives from main native exchanges, together with Upbit, Bithumb, Coinbit and Gopax.
Criticism of “one-exchange, one financial institution” rule
At the opening assembly, committee Chairman Min expressed issues concerning limitations of South Korea’s current one-exchange-one-bank rule, implying that crypto exchanges are restricted to collaborating with just one lender.
“There are clear shortcomings to the one trade, one financial institution precept,” Min reportedly mentioned, including that the committee is working with regulators to resolve the difficulty.
The chairman additionally talked about discussions about which regulators ought to supervise the stablecoin trade and whether or not stablecoins ought to be topic to a licensing or reporting system.
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“There can also be some extent of rivalry as as to whether the Bank of Korea or the FSC ought to deal with the regulation,” he reportedly mentioned.
The information got here shortly after a Bank of Korea govt expressed issues over the issuance of the South Korean won-backed stablecoins.
“Stablecoin has a terrific impression on the implementation of central financial institution insurance policies equivalent to financial coverage, monetary stability, and fee settlement,” Bank of Korea’s Koh Kyung-chul reportedly said at a convention on May 12.
“The detrimental impression on the central financial institution’s coverage implementation ought to be minimized by the central financial institution’s sensible intervention within the approval stage,” he added.
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