The review period will be limited to one year in principle, with the possibility of a six-month extension, to prevent accounting reviews from being prolonged.
June 13, 2022Regulators also plan to launch a 'Digital Assets Committee' this month to bring additional safeguards and regulatory structure to Korea's crypto industry.
June 5, 2022The task force will first conduct fact-finding inspections and investigate areas with a high probability of short selling violations.
June 3, 2022The FSS will seek to understand why Woori's internal control system failed to detect embezzlement by its employee over ten years.
May 30, 2022The FSC says thirteen relevant bills on digital asset investor protection are currently pending at the National Assembly.
May 26, 2022A joint investigations team that was disbanded in January 2020 has now been reinstated to respond to financial and securities crimes.
May 24, 2022Days earlier a Woori Bank employee was arrested for embezzling KRW 61.4 billion between 2012 and 2018.
May 23, 2022Korean crypto exchanges have been asked to share their data on UST and LUNA transactions including and the number of affected investors.
May 18, 2022Banks are asked to strengthen loss absorption capacity, FX liquidity management, credit risk monitoring and bad debt provisioning.
May 12, 2022The theft occurred in three separate withdrawals between 2012 and 2018. It went undetected despite 11 inspections and audits at Woori during the period.
May 3, 2022