Bank of Korea: Cryptocurrency investors now account for 30% of the national population, with average daily trading volume comparable to the stock market

According to BlockBeats news on December 25, and reported by the Korean news agency, data from the Bank of Korea shows that as of the end of November, the number of domestic cryptocurrency investors in South Korea reached 15.59 million, accounting for 30% of the total population of South Korea (approximately 51.23 million), an increase of 610,000 from the previous month. In November, the average daily trading volume of South Korean digital asset exchanges reached 14.9 trillion won (approximately 10.5 billion USD), nearing the total trading volume of the KOSPI index (9.92 trillion won) and the KOSDAQ index (6.97 trillion won).

As of the end of November, the total value of cryptocurrency assets held by Korean investors reached 102.6 trillion won (approximately 70.3 billion USD), a significant increase from 58 trillion won (39.7 billion USD) in October.