First Sovereign Crypto Super-App May Bear a ‘Made in Korea’ Stamp

The Han River in Seoul.Photographer: Tina Hsu/Bloomberg
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Suvashree Ghosh writes on how Naver's acquisition of South Korea's largest crypto exchange may lead to a much talked about "super application" on a sovereign level.

While the more than $1 trillion crypto wipeout led to some awkwardconversations at Thanksgiving tables, the use case for digital assets took a little-noticed leap forward in an unlikely corner of the world - South Korea.