{"id":588046,"date":"2026-04-23T03:30:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=808525"},"modified":"2026-04-23T03:30:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:30:56","slug":"south-korea-bok-governor-prioritizes-digital-won-cbdc-in-first-policy-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/south-korea-bok-governor-prioritizes-digital-won-cbdc-in-first-policy-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea BOK Governor Prioritizes Digital Won CBDC in First Policy Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/south-korea-bok-governor-prioritizes-digital-won-cbdc-in-first-policy-speech-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"South Korea BOK Governor Prioritizes Digital Won CBDC in First Policy Speech\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>South Korea\u2019s new Bank of Korea Governor Shin Hyun-song used his April 21 inaugural address to plant a firm stake in the ground: the country\u2019s digital money future runs through central bank digital currency ( CBDC) and bank-issued deposit tokens, not private stablecoins. Key Takeaways: Bank of Korea (BOK) Governor Shin Hyun-song, sworn in on [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea\u2019s new Bank of Korea Governor Shin Hyun-song used his April 21 inaugural address to plant a firm stake in the ground: the country\u2019s digital money future runs through central bank digital currency ( CBDC) and bank-issued deposit tokens, not private stablecoins. Key Takeaways: Bank of Korea (BOK) Governor Shin Hyun-song, sworn in on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":588047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-588046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}