A fire occurred at a data centre where Kakao operates 32,000 servers that support the vast majority of its mobile services.
October 19, 2022Korean banks have reportedly asked the FSC to ease regulations and issue licenses allowing them to operate digital asset businesses.
July 21, 2022The FSS is set to conduct 779 regular or occasional inspections on financial firms throughout this year.
April 7, 2022The FSC will apply “same rules for same services” to ensure fair competition between bigtech firms and financial institutions.
January 18, 2022The FSS fined Naver Financial and issued warnings against three executives for exposing its office intranet to external risks.
November 16, 2021FSS governor Jeong Eun-bo said regulators will seek to enable fair competition between digital platform providers and financial companies.
October 11, 2021The FSC and FSS have ordered Kakao and Naver to alter or halt the sale of financial products online and register as brokerages by 24 September.
September 15, 2021Units of SK Group, Naver and Kakao are the three firms competing to work on a CBDC project which will commence next month.
July 15, 2021This first time the FSC has granted approval for digital insurance business to a new entrant that is not already an insurer.
June 11, 2021The testing and simulation exercise will be conducted in two phases, the first involving the creation, issuance and redemption of a digital won.
May 26, 2021