{"id":646754,"date":"2026-08-22T10:30:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T10:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=841059"},"modified":"2026-08-22T10:30:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T10:30:33","slug":"beyond-the-kimchi-premium-koreas-institutional-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/22\/beyond-the-kimchi-premium-koreas-institutional-shift\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Kimchi Premium: Korea\u2019s Institutional Shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/beyond-the-kimchi-premium-koreas-institutional-shift-factblock-ceo-and-korea-blockchain-week-organizer-andrew-park-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"South Korea landmarks Seoul Station Central Seoul, South Kor\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Factblock CEO and Korea Blockchain Week organizer Andrew Park outlines South Korea\u2019s transition from a retail-driven crypto market to an institutional digital finance hub. However, he believes institutional adoption relies on resolving unglamorous back-office realities supported by new frameworks for digital asset access. From Retail Craze to Institutional Frontier For years, the global crypto ecosystem [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Factblock CEO and Korea Blockchain Week organizer Andrew Park outlines South Korea\u2019s transition from a retail-driven crypto market to an institutional digital finance hub. However, he believes institutional adoption relies on resolving unglamorous back-office realities supported by new frameworks for digital asset access. From Retail Craze to Institutional Frontier For years, the global crypto ecosystem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":646755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-646754","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\/646754","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=646754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}