South Korea officially lifts nine-year corporate crypto investment ban. Effective immediately, listed companies and professional investors can now legally participate in digital asset markets—marking the first legal window for institutional activity since the 2017 restrictions took hold. The policy shift opens institutional capital flows into the crypto ecosystem and signals a major regulatory stance realignment in a key Asian market. This move removes compliance barriers that have kept major South Korean corporations sidelined from the digital asset space for nearly a decade.