Coin World News reports that on December 27, the Bank of Korea released a report based on the number of investors with accounts in the five major Korean exchanges: Upbit, Bithumb, Coin One, Cobit, and Gopax. As of November this year, the number of people holding cryptocurrencies in Korean exchanges exceeded 15.59 million, an increase of 610,000 from 14.98 million in October. Currently, South Korea's total population is estimated to be around 51.23 million. This means that the number of people holding cryptocurrencies accounts for more than 30% of the total population. The report states that the number of cryptocurrency investors in South Korea has been on the rise, with a sharp increase in November. This may be the result of heightened market optimism following the election victory of Donald Trump as U.S. President in early November.