Golden Finance reported that the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) under the Korean Financial Services Commission announced the "Results of the Survey on Virtual Asset Business Status in the First Half of 2023." The survey results show that the market value of South Korea’s virtual assets increased to 28.4 trillion won in the first half of this year from 19.4 trillion won at the end of last year, an increase of 9 trillion won. The expected launch of the BTC spot ETF caused the BTC price to rebound by 81% in the first half of the year alone, driving the recovery of investment sentiment. The polarization between won market exchanges and token market exchanges has deepened. Of the 21 token market exchanges reported to the Financial Intelligence Unit, 10 (or half of them) did not generate any trading fees in the first half of this year. The total capital of 18 currency exchanges is negative. The Financial Services Commission said some exchanges faced difficulties in continuing to operate in the future.