Korea’s Crypto Gap with Global Market Widens

The widening gap highlights a structural divergence: retail liquidity alone isn't enough to capture global growth in newer sectors like perps, prediction markets, stablecoins, and RWA. Korea's regulatory lag effectively caps its market's breadth, making the pace of legal framework updates the key variable. If regulation improves, the existing retail base could quickly pivot into these areas, but until then, activity will likely migrate offshore. What matters is whether Korean authorities treat these sectors as a priority, as that will determine if the gap narrows or becomes permanent.