South Korea to Open Virtual Asset Accounts to 3,500 Firms; BOK to Test AI Agent Deposit Tokens by 2026

South Korea is moving on two fronts at once: widening institutional access to virtual asset accounts while the central bank explores tokenized deposits that AI agents could use. The corporate-account expansion matters because it shifts crypto exposure from retail toward firms with treasury and compliance functions, which tends to change market structure more than headline demand. The BOK's deposit-token test is the more consequential signal, since it puts a major central bank inside the AI-plus-tokenization conversation rather than outside it. Whether the account rollout moves beyond approvals, and whether the BOK test reaches live pilot, are the open questions.