🇰🇷 SOUTH KOREA GOES ALL-IN ON STABLECOINS! 💥
🧨 New National Push: Korean Won-Based Stablecoins
✔️ Stablecoin law proposed by Min Byeong-deok
✔️ Lifts current ban on issuing KRW-pegged stablecoins
✔️ Goal: Fight capital outflows & boost digital sovereignty
✔️ Private sector-led (KakaoPay already filing patents)
💬 "Won-based stablecoins can cut FX costs, support exports, and reduce reliance on the dollar." — Lawmaker Min
😨 But Critics Are Sounding the Alarm:
> ❗"KRW isn’t globally demanded like USD — it could backfire." — Brian Paik, CEO of SmashFi
❗"It might become a proxy-CBDC and risk financial censorship."
❗"No one is buying Korean won bonds. Where’s the demand?" — @bonghyeon_bro
💡 Suggested alternative?
➡️ Build a national Bitcoin reserve like El Salvador.
> "Bitcoin is neutral, liquid, and censorship-resistant."
🎯 What’s Really at Stake?
✅ If successful → Korea could lead the Web3 stablecoin economy
❌ If not → Waste of capital, risk of centralization, global irrelevance
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South Korea wants to tokenize the won.
Will it spark a KRW crypto revolution — or collapse under global pressure?
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