South Korea's Crypto Assets Outflow of $60 Billion in H2 2025, Exchange Profits Decline Sharply by 38%

DeepFlowTech · 2026-03-25T08:43:05+00:00

The South Korean Financial Services Commission released a report stating that cryptocurrency outflows to overseas platforms reached 60 billion dollars in the second half of 2025, representing a 14% increase. Despite a rise in users and deposits, operating profits at 18 exchanges declined 38%. Overall market capitalization and average daily trading volume both declined, primarily due to price declines in major crypto assets.

DeepFlowTech

2026-03-25 08:43:05

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Deep Tide TechFlow News, March 25 — According to The Block, the Korea Financial Services Commission (FSC) released a report showing that in the second half of 2025, approximately $60 billion (90 trillion KRW) of crypto assets from Korean cryptocurrency exchanges were transferred to overseas platforms and private wallets, a 14% increase from the first half of the year. Regulators believe this may be related to arbitrage activities during market volatility.

Meanwhile, despite the number of local exchange users in Korea increasing by 3% to 11.1 million accounts and deposits rising by 31% to 8.1 trillion KRW (about $54 billion), the combined operating profit of 18 exchanges in the second half of 2025 was only 380.7 billion KRW (about $2.53 billion), a significant 38% decline from the first half.

The total market capitalization of Korea’s crypto market at the end of 2025 is estimated at about 87.2 trillion KRW (roughly $580 billion), down 8% from the first half. Daily trading volume also decreased by 15% month-over-month to 5.4 trillion KRW (about $36 billion). Regulators pointed out that the decline in major crypto asset prices at year-end was the main reason for the drop in trading volume and profitability.

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