South Korea Blocks 27 Unregistered Crypto Exchange Websites Including KuCoin and MEXC

South Korea’s Financial Intelligence Unit said on October 13 that domestic access to 27 active websites linked to unregistered virtual-asset service providers had been blocked or terminated, following reviews conducted on October 6 and 7. The action restricts normal access in South Korea to platforms reported to include KuCoin and MEXC. FIU blocks or terminates access to 27 platforms The Financial Services Commission announcement said the FIU acted against 27 websites that were still operating at the time of its review and were connected to providers not registered as virtual-asset service providers in the country. For a domestic operator or server, the restriction is service termination; for an overseas website, it is an access block.

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