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South Korea Releases Roadmap for Internationalizing the Korean Won, Plans to Issue Won ...
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Fusion42 · 19 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
South Korea released a roadmap to internationalise the Korean won, including launching an offshore won settlement network (trials September 2026, live January 2027), issuing won-pegged stablecoins, tokenising government bonds on its CBDC, and joining the Bank for International Settlements' Project Agora for cross-border digital payments.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Fintech, and 2 sources have reported it.
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If you build stablecoin infrastructure or cross-border payment rails, South Korea just opened a live testbed: won-pegged stablecoins launch next year and government bonds tokenise on the Bank of Korea's CBDC in parallel. You have nine months to get a seat at the table before the network goes live.
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