According to Foresight News, News1 reported that the "Credit Card Companies' Blocking of Overseas Virtual Asset Transactions in the Past Five Years" submitted by the office of a member of the Financial Supervisory Service of South Korea showed that as of March 2023, there were 46,409 cases of illegal virtual asset transactions through credit card companies. In 2019, the data was 15,820 cases, in 2020 it was 435,300 cases, and in 2022 it was 57,203 cases.