{"id":35819,"date":"2025-08-28T09:16:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T09:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.tradesilvania.com\/south-korean-lawmakers-invest-in-crypto\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T09:16:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T09:16:57","slug":"south-korean-lawmakers-invest-in-crypto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tradesilvania.com\/en\/news\/south-korean-lawmakers-invest-in-crypto\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korean lawmakers invest in crypto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tradesilvania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/South-Korean-lawmakers-invest-in-crypto.webp\" alt=\"South Korean lawmakers invest in crypto\" \/>\n            <\/p>\n<p>A report published in South Korea shows that several local lawmakers have invested in cryptocurrencies such as <a href=\"https:\/\/tradesilvania.com\/en\/prices\/bitcoin?ref=tradesilvania.com\">Bitcoin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tradesilvania.com\/en\/prices\/ripple?ref=tradesilvania.com\">XRP<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/tradesilvania.com\/en\/prices\/pepe?ref=tradesilvania.com\">PEPE<\/a>, alongside American tech stocks. The investigation, conducted by Energy Kyungjae, focused on members of the National Assembly\u2019s Culture, Sports, and Tourism Committee.<\/p>\n<p>According to the findings, some lawmakers have chosen to diversify their portfolios with digital assets instead of focusing on the domestic KOSPI stock market. Lawmaker Jin Jong-oh (People Power Party) holds over 3,300 <a href=\"https:\/\/tradesilvania.com\/en\/prices\/ripple?ref=tradesilvania.com\">XRP<\/a> and other tokens, with his portfolio increasing from about $1,768 to $9,600 in recent months. His mother has an even larger exposure, including <a href=\"https:\/\/tradesilvania.com\/en\/prices\/bitcoin?ref=tradesilvania.com\">Bitcoin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tradesilvania.com\/en\/prices\/chiliz?ref=tradesilvania.com\">Chiliz<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tradesilvania.com\/en\/prices\/sandbox?ref=tradesilvania.com\">Sandbox<\/a>, and 3.2 billion <a href=\"https:\/\/tradesilvania.com\/en\/prices\/pepe?ref=tradesilvania.com\">PEPE<\/a> tokens.<\/p>\n<p>Yang Moon-seok (Democratic Party) disclosed that he holds approximately $1,300 worth of <a href=\"https:\/\/tradesilvania.com\/en\/prices\/ripple?ref=tradesilvania.com\">XRP<\/a>. At the same time, some officials invested in U.S. companies such as Microsoft, NVIDIA, Apple, and Tesla, as well as unlisted Korean gaming firms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>            A report published in South Korea shows that several local lawmakers have invested in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, XRP, and PEPE, alongside American tech stocks. The investigation, conducted by Energy Kyungjae, focused on members of the National Assembly\u2019s Culture, Sports, and Tourism Committee.<\/p>\n<p>According to the findings, some lawmakers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[99,98],"class_list":["post-35819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-en","tag-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>South Korean lawmakers invest in crypto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"South Korean lawmakers invest in crypto. 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