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<newsSubject><![CDATA[South Korea’s Top 5 Virtual Asset Exchanges: 7.83 Million Real-Name Accounts Are ‘Ghost Accounts’]]></newsSubject>
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<news1><![CDATA[It has been revealed that approximately two out of every three customers with real-name accounts at the five major Korean won-based cryptocurrency exchanges do not actually use their accounts for trading.

According to financial industry sources on the 1st, data submitted to Rep. Park Seong-hoon of the People Power Party, a member of the National Assembly’s Political Affairs Committee, showed that as of the end of July this year, the five won-denominated exchanges — Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, DigitalX, and Gopax — had a total of 11,629,685 customers with real-name accounts. The number of active users stood at 3,795,580, accounting for just 32.6% of the total.

Based on a simple calculation, the gap amounts to 7,834,105 people(67.4%). This means that two out of every three customers with real-name accounts are simply maintaining their accounts without actually conducting any transactions.

Usage rates by exchange were as follows: ▲Upbit: 2,475,277 out of 7,014,677 users (35.3%) ▲Bithumb: 1,089,696 out of 3,313,821 users (32.9%) ▲Coinone: 173,997 out of 855,884 users (20.3%) ▲DigitalX: 53,427 out of 338,400 users (15.8%) ▲Gopax: 3,183 out of 106,903 users (3.0%). The actual usage rate was even lower among smaller exchanges.

The number of account holders has risen sharply in recent years. The combined number of account holders across the five companies increased by 77.1%, from 6,625,000 at the end of 2022 to 11,736,000 at the end of 2025. In contrast, the actual usage rate stood at just 32.6% as of July of this year.]]></news1>
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<news_epilog_byline><![CDATA[By Soon-ki Lee(s8789@nspna.com) and Myung hwan Yu(ymh7536@nspna.com)]]></news_epilog_byline>
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