The Financial Supervisory Commission has been completely reorganized to address digital finance... A new Virtual Asset Regulatory Bureau has been established.

The Financial Supervisory Commission made personnel adjustments at the director and division chief levels on December 22, 2025, to promote organizational restructuring and strengthen internal capabilities. This personnel arrangement aims to enhance the professionalism of supervisory functions and policy response capabilities, and to move towards strengthening overall financial Risk Management and the consumer protection system.

A notable aspect of this personnel adjustment is the comprehensive arrangement of professionals into key positions overseeing consumer protection. For example, the newly appointed Director of the Consumer Protection Supervision Coordination Bureau, Lu Yinghou, will also serve as a senior director. Senior personnel such as Park Hyun-seop and Lim Kwon-soon have also been assigned to the director positions responsible for consumer communication and damage prevention. This is interpreted as reflecting the supervisory department's ongoing efforts to strengthen consumer rights in a financial market characterized by severe information asymmetry.

At the same time, personnel arrangements aimed at strengthening the response to the recent issues of virtual assets and financial fraud have also been made. Director Choi Kwang-sik will be responsible for the newly established Virtual Asset Supervision Bureau, while Director Lee Jeong-man will head the Financial Fraud Response Team. In addition, to enhance the supervisory capability against harm to people's livelihoods, Lim Jeong-hwan has been appointed as the Director of the Livelihood Harm Response Coordination Bureau. This indicates a significant trend towards strengthening relevant supervisory functions to adapt to the rapidly changing digital financial environment.

To maintain internal stability within the organization, personnel retention arrangements have also been made. Specifically, key personnel such as Li Changgui, the Director of Planning and Coordination, and Kim Eunsun, the Director of Accounting Supervision, will remain in their original positions. They are expected to play a role in ensuring the continuity of major policy directions and laying the foundation for stable responses to changes in domestic and international financial environments.

This personnel adjustment has also brought changes to the local financial supervision system and the operations of overseas offices. The directors of major regional offices in Daegu-Gyeongbuk, Jeonbuk, and Gangwon have been replaced, and new faces have also taken over the directors of global bases such as London and Tokyo. This is interpreted as not only a response to domestic issues but also a strategic move to proactively address changes in the international financial environment.

Such personnel measures indicate that in the future, financial authorities may continue to promote policies aimed at flexibly restructuring the supervision system to adapt to the speed of digital transformation, with a focus on financial consumer protection as a key issue. Particularly in the context of the expanding intersection between traditional finance and digital finance, it is worth paying attention to whether this personnel adjustment can actually translate into functional enhancement.