South Korea Supreme Court Ruling Treats Exchange-Held Bitcoin as Seizable Property
South Korea’s top court has drawn a hard legal line on digital assets, ruling that bitcoin held on exchanges can be seized during criminal probes, cementing virtual assets as enforceable property under criminal procedure...
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Older archive item. Useful for background and entity history, but not a fresh market-moving signal.
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Bitcoin is showing up inside the Market Structure theme, so this story is worth tracking for follow-through rather than treating it as a one-off headline.
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