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

ZkProver · 2026-03-25T11:30:39+00:00

South Korea's Financial Services Commission released a report stating that in the second half of 2025, crypto asset outflows to overseas platforms and wallets reached $60 billion, a 14% increase. Despite growing users and deposits at local exchanges, operating profit at 18 exchanges declined 38%. Overall market capitalization and average daily trading volume also decreased, primarily due to crypto asset price declines.

ZkProver

2026-03-25 11:30:39

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ChainCatcher reports that, according to The Block, the Korea Financial Services Commission (FSC) released a report showing that by the second half of 2025, approximately $60 billion (90 trillion KRW) of crypto assets from Korean exchanges have flowed 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, although the number of local exchange users in Korea increased by 3% to 11.1 million accounts, and deposits rose 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 decrease in trading volume and profitability.

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