South Korea\'s simple payment companies are expanding where their services can be used by linking existing networks and supplying payment infrastructure to new sectors. Banks and internet-only lenders are also widening mobile lending and alternative credit offerings. Regulators and the government are moving on youth savings, transport fare support and payment security checks. After-hours trading has extended KOSPI and KOSDAQ hours to 8 p.m., while debate continues over digital asset taxation and related infrastructure.

South Korea should prepare incentives to encourage use of domestic digital asset exchanges and build an automated calculation and reporting system linked to exchanges before digital asset income taxation begins in January, a report said. Areas such as overseas exchanges, private wallets and over-the-counter trading remain hard for tax authorities to track, it said. The National Assembly Budget Office also called for clearer taxation standards by transaction type and measures to encourage voluntary reporting.