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BOK to recruit 100,000 participants for digital currency experiment

Summary by The Korea Times
The Bank of Korea (BOK) will launch a pilot for real-world transactions using its central bank digital currency (CBDC) in April, the central bank announced Tuesday. Around 100,000 participants will have the opportunity to convert their bank deposits into digital tokens for everyday transactions.

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Ready to face the future and its electronic realities, South Korea has just launched a test project on a sample of 100,000 people in order to experiment with digital currency.

[Digital Daily Reporter Kwon Yoo-seung] It was revealed that the scale of use of simple payment services increased by about 10% last year. According to the 'Simple Payment and Remittance Service Usage Status' released by the Bank of Korea on the 20th, the average number of daily simple payment service usage cases and usage amount last year were 3,072 cases and 959.4 billion won, respectively, which increased by 12.3% and 9.6% from the previous …

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The Korea Times broke the news in Korea (the Republic of) on Tuesday, March 18, 2025.
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