🇰🇷 Card Giant Flips the Script: Stablecoins for Foreigners? 🤯

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Well, butter my biscuit and call me confused! The good folks over at BC Card, them South Korean payment wizards, reckon they’ve cooked up a scheme where foreigners can fling their stablecoins at local merchants like they’re tossing coins to a busker. 🪙✨

This here pilot project, announced with all the fanfare of a Tuesday afternoon nap, was a tag-team effort with Wavebridge (them blockchain cowboys), Aaron Group (wallet wranglers), and Global Money Express (cross-border cash slingers). They had foreigners convertin’ their stablecoins from overseas wallets into digital prepaid cards faster than you can say “Kimchi Premium.” 🌶️💳

Now, BC Card ain’t just whistlin’ Dixie-they claim this ain’t no fly-by-night stunt. No siree, they’re fixin’ to build a whole stablecoin payment empire, all in response to them ever-changin’ South Korean regulations. 🏛️⚖️

BC Card, mind you, is no small fry. They’re processin’ over 20% of South Korea’s card transactions and caterin’ to 3.4 million merchants. That’s more reach than a long-armed octopus at a clam bake. 🐙 Their sugar daddy? KT Corp, one of them big-shot telecom giants. 📡

Shehram Khattak, the legal eagle at Trust Wallet, chimed in with a doozy: Banks’ll have to overhaul their operations, processes, and probably their whole danged department. It’s like teachin’ a old dog new tricks, but with more paperwork. 🐕📜

South Korea’s Stablecoin Shenanigans

Back in July, the local rags were squawkin’ about credit card companies runnin’ around like chickens with their heads cut off, all spooked by the specter of stablecoins. The industry even formed a task force, like a posse chasin’ a ghost. 👻💸

BC Card, bless their hearts, even launched an internal team to keep tabs on stablecoin trends, both domestic and foreign. But them regulations? Movin’ slower than molasses in January. 🌡️🐢

This month, the Financial Services Commission (FSC) dropped the ball harder than a juggler on a unicycle. They missed the deadline for their stablecoin regulations draft, thanks to a squabble with the Bank of Korea (BOK). Seems the BOK wants banks to own 51% of any stablecoin issuer, while the other regulators are rootin’ for a free-for-all. 🏦⚔️

Stablecoins Goin’ Global, Y’all

Stablecoins are poppin’ up like weeds in a garden, touted as the next big thing in payments. YouTube’s even lettin’ U.S. creators get paid in PayPal USD (PYUSD), and Visa’s settlin’ transactions in USD Coin (USDC) for some financial institutions. It’s a regular gold rush, minus the gold. 🌍💰

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2025-12-23 17:11