{"id":670188,"date":"2026-10-12T22:05:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T22:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=855337"},"modified":"2026-10-12T22:05:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T22:05:49","slug":"south-koreas-bitcoin-lending-experiment-begins-at-jeonbuk-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/12\/south-koreas-bitcoin-lending-experiment-begins-at-jeonbuk-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea\u2019s Bitcoin Lending Experiment Begins at Jeonbuk Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/south-koreas-bitcoin-lending-experiment-begins-at-jeonbuk-bank-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"JB Financial Group\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>South Korea just cracked open the door to bitcoin-backed banking, according to local reports. Jeonbuk Bank has executed the country&#8217;s first reported traditional bank loan secured by bitcoin, allowing businesses to borrow Korean won without selling their coins or surrendering ownership to the lender. A Bitcoin Loan Without Touching Bitcoin Jeonbuk Bank, a subsidiary of [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea just cracked open the door to bitcoin-backed banking, according to local reports. Jeonbuk Bank has executed the country&#8217;s first reported traditional bank loan secured by bitcoin, allowing businesses to borrow Korean won without selling their coins or surrendering ownership to the lender. A Bitcoin Loan Without Touching Bitcoin Jeonbuk Bank, a subsidiary of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":670189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-670188","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\/670188","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=670188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}