August 19, 2024

South Korea’s New Era: Virtual Asset User Protection Act 2024 Sets a Bold Standard

by Soham Panchamiya, Pankhuri Malhotra, Pooja Unnikrishnan and Sandlink

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Key Takeaways

  • South Korea’s Virtual Asset User Protection Act 2024 introduces stringent regulations to enhance consumer protection in the crypto space.
  • The Act was prompted by high-profile incidents like the Terra Luna collapse and the FTX scandal, highlighting vulnerabilities in the industry.
  • Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs) in South Korea must adhere to stricter compliance guidelines, including separating user funds and enhancing security measures.
  • The new regulations aim to boost consumer confidence and restore the country’s reputation in the crypto industry.
  • South Korea’s regulatory approach mirrors global trends towards increased supervision, similar to frameworks in Singapore, Hong Kong, and the UAE.
  • The UAE offers a more flexible, innovation-friendly regulatory environment, with benefits like a low tax rate, 100% foreign ownership, and specialised free zones for crypto businesses.
  • For Web3 companies, the UAE presents an attractive alternative for long-term growth and strategic operations, especially in contrast to South Korea’s stricter regulations.

South Korea’s New Era: Virtual Asset User Protection Act 2024 Sets a Bold Standard

ํ•œ๊ตญ ๊ฐ€์ƒ์ž์‚ฐ ์‚ฐ์—…์˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํŒจ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ค์ž„ : 2024๋…„ ๊ฐ€์ƒ์ž์‚ฐ์ด์šฉ์ž๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฒ•์ด ์ œ์‹œํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ
Background ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ
It is no secret that many South Koreans are avid crypto enthusiasts. According to a report by the Korea Financial Intelligence Unit, the number of crypto wallet users in South Korea surged to 6.45 million by the end of 2023, up from just 1.9 million at the start of 2021.[1] ํ•œ๊ตญ์€ ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ์•”ํ˜ธํ™”ํ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋Œ€์ค‘์˜ ์•”ํ˜ธํ™”ํ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ธ์ง€๋„๋Š” ๊ทธ ์–ด๋Š” ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋ณด๋‹ค ๋†’์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๊ตญ ๊ธˆ์œต์ •๋ณด๋ถ„์„์›(KFIU)์˜ ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, 2021๋…„ ์ดˆ 190๋งŒ ๋ช…์— ๋ถˆ๊ณผํ–ˆ๋˜ ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ์•”ํ˜ธํ™”ํ ์ง€๊ฐ‘ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ 2023๋…„ ๋ง์—๋Š” 645๋งŒ ๋ช…์œผ๋กœ ๊ธ‰์ฆํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
The collapse of Terra Luna,[2] a locally developed project, profoundly impacted South Korea’s Web3 sector with heightened suspicion and an increasing demand for regulation. The incident highlighted vulnerabilities within the sector and led to significant financial losses for many investors. This, combined with the fallout from the FTX scandal,[3] underscored the urgent need for stronger regulatory measures to protect users and restore confidence in the Web3 industry. As a result, South Korea has introduced the Virtual Asset User Protection Act[4] (โ€œVAUPAโ€) to address these issues and ensure a more secure environment for consumers. This legislation aims to restore confidence and improve the country’s reputation in the crypto space. 2022๋…„ ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ์ ์ธ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜€๋˜ ํ…Œ๋ผ ๋ฃจ๋‚˜์˜ ๋ถ•๊ดด๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ์›น3(Web3) ๋ถ„์•ผ์— ํฐ ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์„ ์ฃผ์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ด์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๊ทœ์ œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์š”๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ๋†’์•„์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์€ ํ•ด๋‹น ๋ถ„์•ผ์˜ ์ทจ์•ฝ์„ฑ์„ ๋ถ€๊ฐ์‹œ์ผฐ๊ณ  ๋งŽ์€ ํˆฌ์ž์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ์žฌ์ •์  ์†์‹ค์„ ์•ˆ๊ฒผ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ™์€ ํ•ด, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์€ FTX ์Šค์บ”๋“ค๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ํ›„ํญํ’๊ณผ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉ๋˜์–ด, ์ด์šฉ์ž ๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์›น3 ์‚ฐ์—…์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ํšŒ๋ณตํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๊ทœ์ œ ์กฐ์น˜์˜ ํ•„์š”์„ฑ์„ ๋”์šฑ ์•ผ๊ธฐํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ •๋ถ€๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋” ์•ˆ์ „ํ•œ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด “๊ฐ€์ƒ์ž์‚ฐ ์ด์šฉ์ž ๋ณดํ˜ธ๋“ฑ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๋ฒ•๋ฅ (์ดํ•˜ ๊ฐ€์ƒ์ž์‚ฐ์ด์šฉ์ž๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฒ•)”์„ ๋„์ž…ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ฒ•์•ˆ์€ ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ํšŒ๋ณตํ•˜๊ณ  ์•”ํ˜ธํ™”ํ ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ์˜ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ๋ช…์„ฑ์„ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Although South Korea is an early adopter of this type of regulation, similar rules and frameworks are already in place worldwide to enhance the credibility and reliability of the virtual asset industry. This represents a general trend towards greater regulatory supervision. ๋น„๋ก ํ•œ๊ตญ์ด ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์œ ํ˜•์˜ ๊ทœ์ œ๋ฅผ ์ฒ˜์Œ ๋„์ž…ํ•˜๋Š” ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ์ฑ„ํƒ๊ตญ์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ์œ ์‚ฌํ•œ ๊ทœ์น™๊ณผ ํ”„๋ ˆ์ž„์›Œํฌ๋Š” ์ด๋ฏธ ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์ƒ์ž์‚ฐ ์‚ฐ์—…์˜ ์‹ ๋ขฐ์„ฑ์„ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ค๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์กด์žฌํ•ด์™”์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ๊ฐ€์ƒ์ž์‚ฐ์ด์šฉ์ž๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฒ•์˜ ์‹œํ–‰์€ ๊ฐ€์ƒ์ž์‚ฐ๋ถ„์•ผ์˜ ๋” ํฐ ๊ทœ์ œ ๊ฐ๋…์„ ํ–ฅํ•œ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ์ถ”์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋ƒ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
What does this mean for virtual asset service providers[5] and users[6]? ๊ฐ€์ƒ์ž์‚ฐ ์‚ฌ์—…์ž ย ๋ฐ ์ด์šฉ์ž[7]์—๊ฒŒ ์˜๋ฏธํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ”
Virtual Asset Service Providers will need to adhere to stricter compliance guidelines. This includes implementing robust security measures, ensuring transparent operations, and protecting user data, especially regarding the protection[8] and safekeeping[9] of virtual assets.[10] ์‹œํ–‰๋ฒ•์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ๊ฐ€์ƒ์ž์‚ฐ ์‚ฌ์—…์ž์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ๋” ์—„๊ฒฉํ•œ ์ค€์ˆ˜ ์ง€์นจ์ด ์š”๊ตฌ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๋ณด์•ˆ ์กฐ์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ตฌํ˜„ํ•˜๊ณ , ํˆฌ๋ช…ํ•œ ์šด์˜์„ ๋ณด์žฅํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ฐ€์ƒ์ž์‚ฐ ์˜ ๋ณดํ˜ธ์™€ ์•ˆ์ „ํ•œ ๋ณด๊ด€๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ ์ด์šฉ์ž ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ํฌํ•จ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
The new law could boost consumer confidence by providing a regulatory framework aimed at safeguarding users. ํ•ด๋‹น ๋ฒ•์€ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๋ฅผ ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ทœ์ œ ํ”„๋ ˆ์ž„์›Œํฌ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ์ด์šฉ์ž๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ์˜ ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Virtual Asset Service Providers (“VASPsโ€) must keep usersโ€™ deposits separate from their own funds by depositing them with a reputable institution (custodian) like a bank in a client money account.[11] Further, funds deposited with a custodian cannot be offset, attached, transferred, or used as collateral except in specific cases outlined by the VAUPA.[12] ๊ฐ€์ƒ์ž์‚ฐ ์‚ฌ์—…์ž๋Š” ์ด์šฉ์ž์˜ ์˜ˆ๊ธˆ์„ ์ž์‹ ๋“ค์˜ ์ž๊ธˆ๊ณผ ๋ถ„๋ฆฌํ•˜์—ฌ ์€ํ–‰๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์‹ ๋ขฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐ๊ด€(์ˆ˜ํƒ ๊ธฐ๊ด€)์— ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ž๊ธˆ ๊ณ„์ขŒ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์น˜ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, ์ˆ˜ํƒ ๊ธฐ๊ด€์— ์˜ˆ์น˜๋œ ์ž๊ธˆ์€ ๊ฐ€์ƒ์ž์‚ฐ์ด์šฉ์ž๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฒ•์— ๋ช…์‹œ๋œ ํŠน์ • ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋ฅผ ์ œ์™ธํ•˜๊ณ ๋Š” ์ƒ๊ณ„, ์••๋ฅ˜, ์ด์ „ ๋˜๋Š” ๋‹ด๋ณด๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
The Bank of Korea has voted to require VASPs to submit quarterly reports. In addition to such quarterly reports, VASPs may also have to submit documents such as operational and risk management reports as well as data related to virtual asset transactions. VASPs are also expected to take necessary measures such as obtaining insurance or mutual aid programs or accumulating reserves under the Financial Services Commission (โ€œFSCโ€) guidelines to fulfil their liabilities or obligations in the event of accidents such as hacking and computer failures.[13] ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€ ํ•œ๊ตญ์€ํ–‰์€ ๊ฐ€์ƒ์ž์‚ฐ ์‚ฌ์—…์ž๊ฐ€ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋ณ„ ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ๋ฅผ ์ œ์ถœํ•˜๋„๋ก ์š”๊ตฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋ณ„ ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ ์™ธ์—๋„ ๊ฐ€์ƒ์ž์‚ฐ์‚ฌ์—…์ž๋Š” ์šด์˜ ๋ฐ ๋ฆฌ์Šคํฌ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ์™€ ๊ฐ€์ƒ์ž์‚ฐ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ๊ด€๋ จ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ฌธ์„œ๋ฅผ ์ œ์ถœํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์™ธ์—๋„ ๊ฐ€์ƒ์ž์‚ฐ์‚ฌ์—…์ž๋Š” ํ•ดํ‚น ๋ฐ ์ปดํ“จํ„ฐ ์˜ค๋ฅ˜์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์‚ฌ๊ณ  ๋ฐœ์ƒ ์‹œ ์ฑ…์ž„์ด๋‚˜ ์˜๋ฌด๋ฅผ ์ดํ–‰ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ธˆ์œต์œ„์›ํšŒ ์ง€์นจ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋ณดํ—˜์ด๋‚˜ ์ƒํ˜ธ ์›์กฐ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์„ ์–ป๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ค€๋น„๊ธˆ์„ ์ ๋ฆฝํ•˜๋Š” ๋“ฑ์˜ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์กฐ์น˜๋ฅผ ์ทจํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
South Korea as a Jurisdiction for the Virtual Assets Sector ๊ฐ€์ƒ์ž์‚ฐ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ์˜ ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ๊ด€ํ• ๊ถŒ์˜ ย South Korea as a Jurisdiction for the Virtual Assets Sector
Listing on a South Korean exchange is not a simple exerciseโ€”it is now a tangle of regulations, market dynamics, and economic requirements. In February 2023, the FSC published a โ€œSecurity Token Issuance and Distribution Regulation System Improvement Plan and Security Token Policy Tasksโ€ (โ€œPolicy Tasksโ€).[14] The key Policy Tasks include (i) providing principles for determining whether a digital asset would be deemed a security and (ii) establishing a regulatory foundation to ensure an appropriate market for issuing and circulating security tokens. Security tokens issued overseas may also be considered a security under certain circumstances. An over-the-counter market and a dedicated exchange at the Korea Exchange were introduced for trading security tokens. ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋‚ด ๊ฐ€์ƒ์ž์‚ฐ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์†Œ์— ์ƒ์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ทœ์ œ, ์‹œ์žฅ ์—ญํ•™, ๊ฒฝ์ œ์  ์š”๊ตฌ์‚ฌํ•ญ๋“ค์ด ์–ฝํ˜€ ์žˆ์–ด, ๋ณต์žก์„ฑ์ด ์ฆ๋Œ€๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2023๋…„ 2์›”, ๊ธˆ์œต์œ„์›ํšŒ๋Š” ” ํ† ํฐ ์ฆ๊ถŒ(Security Token) ๋ฐœํ–‰ยท์œ ํ†ต ๊ทœ์œจ์ฒด๊ณ„ ์ •๋น„๋ฐฉ์•ˆ ” (์ดํ•˜ ์ •๋น„ ๋ฐฉ์•ˆ) [15] ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผ์š” ์ •๋น„ ๋ฐฉ์•ˆ์—๋Š” (i) ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์ž์‚ฐ์ด ์ฆ๊ถŒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ„์ฃผ๋ ์ง€ ์—ฌ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ์›์น™ ์ œ๊ณต๊ณผ (ii) ์ฆ๊ถŒํ˜• ํ† ํฐ์˜ ๋ฐœํ–‰ ๋ฐ ์œ ํ†ต๊ฐ„ ์‹œ์žฅ ์•ˆ์ •์„ ๋ณด์žฅํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ทœ์ œ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ๊ตฌ์ถ•์ด ํฌํ•จ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ด์™ธ์—์„œ ๋ฐœํ–‰๋œ ์ฆ๊ถŒํ˜• ํ† ํฐ๋„ ํŠน์ • ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ฆ๊ถŒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ„์ฃผ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์†Œ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ฆ๊ถŒํ˜• ํ† ํฐ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์žฅ์™ธ ์‹œ์žฅ๊ณผ ์ „์šฉ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์†Œ๊ฐ€ ๋„์ž…๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
The crypto industryโ€™s Wild West days are slowly giving way to a more structured and reliable framework, much like what we see in the securities and commodities world. The VAUPA framework is paving the way, and it is reflective of requirements underway in other parts of the world like Singapore, Hong Kong, the United Arab Emirates (“UAEโ€) and the UK. ๊ฐ€์ƒ์ž์‚ฐ์‚ฐ์—…์€ ๊ทธ๊ฐ„ ํšŒ์ƒ‰์ง€๋Œ€ ๋‚ด์— ๋…ธ์ถœ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ์ ์ฐจ ์ฆ๊ถŒ ๋ฐ ๊ธˆ์œต์ƒํ’ˆ ์‹œ์žฅ๊ณผ ์œ ์‚ฌํ•œ ํ”„๋ ˆ์ž„์›Œํฌ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๋Š” ํ˜•ํƒœ๋กœ ๋ณ€๋ชจํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์ƒ์ž์‚ฐ์ด์šฉ์ž๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฒ•์€ ์‹ฑ๊ฐ€ํฌ๋ฅด, ํ™์ฝฉ, ์•„๋ž์—๋ฏธ๋ฆฌํŠธ(UAE) ๋ฐ ์˜๊ตญ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ด€ํ• ๊ถŒ์—์„œ๋„ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ธ ์š”๊ตฌ์‚ฌํ•ญ์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Why South Korean companies should pivot to the UAE market? ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์ด UAE ์‹œ์žฅ์— ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ•ด์•ผํ•˜๋Š” ์ด์œ 
The UAE is a hotbed for innovation and technology and has made its position known around the world as a crypto-friendly jurisdiction and home for many crypto natives while creating workable regulator frameworks within a virtually tax-free environment. This would be in stark contrast to the heavy suspicion and recrimination rampant in South Korea for many Web3 developers and companies. UAE๋Š” ํ˜์‹ ๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์˜ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์ง€์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ฐ€์ƒ์ž์‚ฐ ์นœํ™”์ ์ธ ๊ด€ํ•  ๊ตฌ์—ญ์œผ๋กœ์„œ ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค์ ธ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฐ€์ƒ์ž์‚ฐ ๋ณด์œ ์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ธ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋™์‹œ์— ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ƒ ์„ธ๊ธˆ์ด ์—†๋Š” ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ ์‹คํ˜„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๊ทœ์ œ ํ”„๋ ˆ์ž„์›Œํฌ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๋งŽ์€ ์›น3 ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์ž์™€ ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์ด ๊ฒช๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ทœ์ œ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ์‚ฌ์—… ์ง„ํ–‰์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ถ€๋‹ด๊ณผ๋Š” ๋Œ€์กฐ๋˜๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Investors and companies in South Korea can choose from a variety of sector-specific free zones within the UAE, such as the DIFC and ADGM, which are renowned financial free zones with strong reputations and robust regulatory frameworks. Alternatively, more crypto native projects can benefit from the expertise of a virtual asset-specific regulator, like VARA, in Dubai. Additionally, the mainland offers the flexibility to conduct business beyond the UAEโ€™s border without additional approvals. ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ํˆฌ์ž์ž์™€ ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์€ ๋‘๋ฐ”์ด๊ตญ์ œ๊ธˆ์œต์„ผํ„ฐ[16] ์™€ ์•„๋ถ€๋‹ค๋น„๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ๋งˆ์ผ“[17] ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ทœ์ œ ํ”„๋ ˆ์ž„์›Œํฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ–์ถ˜ ์œ ๋ช… ๊ธˆ์œต ์ž์œ ๊ตฌ์—ญ์„ ํฌํ•จํ•˜์—ฌ UAE ๋‚ด ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ถ„์•ผ๋ณ„ ์ž์œ ๊ตฌ์—ญ์„ ์„ ํƒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜๋Š”, 2022๋…„ ์„ค๋ฆฝ๋œ ๋‘๋ฐ”์ด์˜ ๊ฐ€์ƒ์ž์‚ฐ๊ทœ์ œ๊ธฐ๊ด€VARA[18] ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฐ€์ƒ์ž์‚ฐ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ธ ๊ทœ์ œ ํ˜œํƒ์„ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, ๋ฉ”์ธ๋žœ๋“œ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ถˆ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ณธํ† ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋ณ„๋„ ์Šน์ธ ์—†์ด UAE ์™ธ๋ถ€ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์œ ์—ฐ์„ฑ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
The UAEโ€™s strategic location, robust economy, and business-friendly environment make it ideal for setting up a company. Moreover, with benefits like 100% foreign ownership in many cases, a low corporate tax rate of only 9%, and no withholding tax, it makes for a compelling opportunity. UAE๋Š” ์ „๋žต์  ์œ„์น˜, ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์ œ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ์นœํ™”์ ์ธ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์€ ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์„ค๋ฆฝ์— ์ด์ƒ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”์šฑ์ด,ย  ์„ค๋ฆฝํ•  ๊ธฐ์—…์˜ ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ ์ง€๋ถ„ 100%, 9%์˜ ๋‚ฎ์€ ๋ฒ•์ธ์„ธ์œจ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์›์ฒœ์ง•์ˆ˜์„ธ๊ฐ€ ์—†๋Š” ์ ์€ ํ•ด์™ธ ์ง„์ถœ์„ ํฌ๋งํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ์—…์—๊ฒŒ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ๊ณ ๋ ค ์š”์†Œ๊ฐ€ ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Conclusion ๊ฒฐ๋กœ
This is no longer 2017 or 2019, where a crypto company could launch a project in major jurisdictions and issue tokens with impunity. The law is slow, but it eventually does catch up to technology, especially technology that can affect the livelihoods and savings of retail customers with the actions of a few bad actors. The changes in South Korea mirror the rising regulations in popular destinations like Singapore, Hong Kong and the UAE. However, for any Web3 project building for the future, it is essential to consider the best strategic bet for its operations in the long-term based on their specific needs. The UAE provides a friendlier but safe operation environment with sufficient supervision to bolster confidence and sufficient benefits to make a move enticing. ํ˜„์žฌ๋Š” 2019๋…„์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๊ฐ€์ƒ์ž์‚ฐ ๋ฐœํ–‰์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ์š” ๊ด€ํ•  ๊ตฌ์—ญ์—์„œ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ํ† ํฐ์„ ์ž์œ ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ๋ฐœํ–‰ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‹œ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฒ•์€ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋ฐœ์ „๋ณด๋‹ค ๋Š๋ฆฌ๋”๋ผ๋„ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์ž…๋ฒ•๊ณผ ์‹œํ–‰ ๊ณผ์ •์„ ๊ฑฐ์น˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์†Œ์ˆ˜์˜ ๊ฐœ์ธ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์˜ ์•…์˜์ ์ธ ํ™œ๋™์ด ์ด์šฉ์ž์˜ ์ƒ๊ณ„์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์—๋Š” ๋”์šฑ ๊ทธ๋ ‡์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ๊ทœ์ œ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋Š” ์‹ฑ๊ฐ€ํฌ๋ฅด, ํ™์ฝฉ, UAE์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฐ€์ƒ์ž์‚ฐ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์ง€์—์„œ์˜ ๊ทœ์ œ ํŒจํ„ด๊ณผ ์œ ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์›น3 ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ํŠน์ • ํ•„์š”์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์šด์˜์— ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ ํ•ฉํ•œ ์ „๋žต์  ์„ ํƒ์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ํ•„์ˆ˜์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. UAE๋Š” ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ๋†’์ด๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•œ ๊ฐ๋…๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋” ์นœํ™”์ ์ด๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ์•ˆ์ „ํ•œ ์šด์˜ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ธฐ์—…์˜ ํ•ด์™ธ ์ง„์ถœ์„ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•œ ํ˜œํƒ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
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[1] Wang, L. (2024) South Koreaโ€™s crypto boom: Kofiu reports user base reached 6.45 million, BeInCrypto. Available at: https://beincrypto.com/kofiu-south-korea-crypto-report h22023/#:~:text=South%20Korea%27s%20crypto%20user%20base%20increased%20by%20390%2C000%2C,over%20100%20million%20won%2C%20reflecting%20diverse%20investment%20sizes. (Accessed: 25 July 2024).

[2] Sam Kessler and Sage D. Young (2023) The Luna and UST crash explained in 5 charts, CoinDesk Latest Headlines RSS. Available at: https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/05/11/the-luna-and-ust-crash-explained-in-5-charts/ (Accessed: 25 July 2024).

[3] Reiff, N. (no date) The collapse of FTX: What went wrong with the Crypto Exchange?, Investopedia. Available at: https://www.investopedia.com/what-went-wrong-with-ftx-6828447 (Accessed: 25 July 2024).

[4] Act on the Protection of Virtual Asset Users (โ€œVAUPAโ€), Act No. 19563, Jul. 18, 2023

[5] Article 2(2) of VAUPA / ๊ฐ€์ƒ์ž์‚ฐ์ด์šฉ์ž๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฒ• ์ œ2์กฐ ์ œ2ํ•ญ

[6] Article 2(3) of VAUPA / ๊ฐ€์ƒ์ž์‚ฐ์ด์šฉ์ž๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฒ• ์ œ2์กฐ ์ œ3ํ•ญ

[7] ๊ฐ€์ƒ์ž์‚ฐ์ด์šฉ์ž๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฒ• ์ œ2์กฐ ์ œ3ํ•ญ

[8] Article 6 of VAUPA / ๊ฐ€์ƒ์ž์‚ฐ์ด์šฉ์ž๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฒ• ์ œ6์กฐ

[9] Article 7 of VAUPA / ๊ฐ€์ƒ์ž์‚ฐ์ด์šฉ์ž๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฒ• ์ œ7์กฐ

[10] Article 2(1) of VAUPA / ๊ฐ€์ƒ์ž์‚ฐ์ด์šฉ์ž๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฒ• ์ œ2์กฐ ์ œ1ํ•ญ

[11] Article 6 of VAUPA / ๊ฐ€์ƒ์ž์‚ฐ์ด์šฉ์ž๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฒ• ์ œ6์กฐ

[12] Article 6(3) of VAUPA / ๊ฐ€์ƒ์ž์‚ฐ์ด์šฉ์ž๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฒ• ์ œ6์กฐ ์ œ 3ํ•ญ

[13] Article 8 of VAUPA / ๊ฐ€์ƒ์ž์‚ฐ์ด์šฉ์ž๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฒ• ์ œ8์กฐ

[14] Regulatory Roadmap for Security Tokens Issuance and Trading in Korea Sang Yeon Eom (2023) โ€˜SHIN&KIMโ€™, 27 February.

[15] Regulatory Roadmap for Security Tokens Issuance and Trading in Korea Sang Yeon Eom (2023) โ€˜SHIN&KIMโ€™, 27 February.

[16] Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC)

[17] Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM)

[18] Virtual Asset Regulatory Authotiry(VARA)

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