The Financial Supervisory Service of Korea plans to establish standard business guidelines for the lending industry by the end of this year, restricting lenders from approving general personal loans for active-duty servicemembers to prevent excessive debt. Existing standards for secured loans and emergency loans will remain unchanged. The figures in the announcement stand out: loans to active-duty servicemembers from the 30 largest registered lenders rose from 350 million won at the end of 2022 to 24.2 billion won at the end of 2025. Regulators cited irrational spending on high-risk investments such as online gambling and crypto assets as one contributing factor. $BTC is just one of the cited triggers; no specific causal link to personal debt was elaborated. Going forward, the focus remains on ranges and volume, and there’s no rush to draw conclusions before anything is confirmed.