🇰🇷 South Korea · AML & KYC
Anti-money-laundering and customer-due-diligence obligations, regulated activities, and the official financial regulator.
In South Korea, the Korea Financial Intelligence Unit (KoFIU) is the lead AML/CFT agency, with the Financial Services Commission and Financial Supervisory Service involved in supervision. Financial companies must verify customers (KYC/CDD), monitor transactions, and file suspicious-transaction reports and currency-transaction reports to KoFIU.
- Verify customers (KYC/CDD) and monitor transactions for money-laundering risk.
- File suspicious-transaction reports and currency-transaction reports to KoFIU.
- KoFIU leads AML/CFT, with FSC/FSS involved in supervision.
Official authorities
- Korea Financial Intelligence Unit (KoFIU)
Korea's lead AML/CFT agency and FIU.
Official-information aggregation, not legal advice. Always verify on the authority's own site.
Government portals
- Government of Korea — Korea's integrated government portal — policy, administrative services, e-government
- Korea Immigration Service (HiKorea) — Visas, residence status changes, work permits, and alien registration in Korea
- National Tax Service (NTS) — Korean income tax, corporate tax, VAT filing; annual comprehensive tax return for foreigners (May); foreign taxpayer incentive lookup