Summary
- 55% of Korean adults have experience investing in virtual assets, with investment being the main purpose of holding them.
- Among the survey respondents, 51.6% made a profit from virtual assets, and the majority's investment amount was less than 10 million won.
- 20.3% have experienced damage related to virtual assets, with the main type of damage being issues related to exchanges.
It was found that 55% of Korean adults have experience investing in virtual assets (cryptocurrencies).
On the 22nd, the Korea Financial Consumer Protection Foundation announced the results of a survey conducted on 2,500 adult men and women aged 19 to 69 living in Seoul, Gyeonggi, and six metropolitan cities.
In the survey, 54.7% of respondents said they 'have owned or currently own virtual assets.'
When asked about the purpose of holding, the most common answer was 'investment' (69.9%), followed by 'curiosity about virtual assets' (42.1%), 'means for using specific services' (14.0%), and 'transaction means replacing currency' (13.7%).
51.6% of respondents said they made a profit from virtual assets. The investment amount was less than 10 million won for 58.7%, and the expected investment period was less than one year (60.8%), indicating that most investments were short-term and small-scale.
The response rate for experiencing damage related to virtual assets was 20.3%. In terms of damage types based on multiple responses, issues related to exchanges were the highest at 72.8%, followed by 'reading rooms' and 'investment fraud' at 44.7% and 35.5%, respectively.
Uk Jin
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