According to the Seoul Shinmun, three out of ten virtual assets listed domestically in the past seven years have been delisted since the full-scale trading of virtual assets began in Korea. Half of the delisted virtual assets could not survive in the market for even two years.
According to the Financial Supervisory Service data on the 22nd, a total of 1,482 virtual assets were listed on five domestic virtual asset exchanges in Korean won (Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, Kobit, and Gopax) from January 2018 to August 2024. Of these, 517 (34.9%) were delisted, and their average listing period was 748 days (2 years and 18 days). Of these, more than half (54.0%), 279, were delisted within two years.