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OPINION
Publication date Dec. 23, 2025
OPINION
Corporate Governance Report Disclosure in Korea and Policy Implications
[Research Fellow] Lim, Nayeon
Korea introduced corporate governance report disclosure in 2017 in the form of voluntary disclosure. Since then, beginning in 2019, mandatory disclosure has been phased in for KOSPI-listed companies according to their asset size, and starting in 2026, the requirement will expand to all companies listed on the KOSPI market. Currently, companies disclose whether they comply with ...
Deposit Tokens as Payment Infrastructure: Necessity and Functional Applications
[Research Fellow] Jang, Bosung
Recently, major central banks have been focusing on frameworks based on wholesale central bank digital currency (wCBDC) and deposit tokens in developing their digital currency infrastructures. A key feature of deposit tokens is their one-to-one exchangeability with base money, which ensures the singleness of money and provides a unified standard for valuation. Given that a comm...
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