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Finance

K Bank says personal business guaranteed loan volume rises sixfold

K Bank said on Jan. 7 that its handling volume of guaranteed loans for individual business owners rose sixfold in 2025 from the previous year. Annual volume increased to 240 billion won from 40 billion won in 2024. The bank expanded the loan’s coverage to 11 regions through cooperation with regional credit guarantee foundations and added a guaranteed loan for designated livelihood-related industries. Outstanding balances nearly doubled to 330 billion won.

Games & Commerce

Nexon's 'Maple Growing' tops 3 million global users

Nexon and Able Games' mobile idle RPG 'Maple Growing' surpassed 3 million cumulative users worldwide within two months of its release. Nexon said the game has remained the top-grossing title in South Korea’s two major app markets since its launch. It posted a peak 570,000 daily active users and 140,000 concurrent users in its first month, with higher figures in December. Nexon plans an update on Jan. 8.

Crypto

Tether introduces Scudo minimum unit for XAUT as gold prices surge

Tether, the issuer of USDT, has introduced a new accounting unit called Scudo to boost usability of its gold-backed stablecoin Tether Gold (XAUT). The unit divides XAUT into 1,000 parts, with 1 Scudo representing one-thousandth of a troy ounce of gold, about 0.0311 grams. Tether cited inconvenience in fractional ounce trading as gold prices rise. It said the approach borrows from Bitcoin’s satoshi concept.