South Korea’s FSS Launches Real-Time AI Platform to Detect Crypto Price Manipulation

South Korea's move matters less for the technology than for the posture: a national financial regulator is treating crypto surveillance as a permanent market function rather than a temporary enforcement exercise. That raises the compliance bar for exchanges and trading desks operating in one of Asia's deepest retail crypto markets, where detection speed has often lagged manipulation tactics. The open question is whether real-time flagging translates into actual enforcement actions, and whether other jurisdictions treat this as a template or an outlier.