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Rhee Shin-song: 'Reviewing public hearings on CBDC... will proceed within public consensus'
- Governor Rhee Shin-song said the Bank of Korea will consider the format, including a public hearing, for addressing CBDC-related public concerns.
- Remarks came at the National Assembly Planning and Finance Committee's audit of the Bank of Korea on October 12 at its Seoul headquarters.
- Lawmaker Bae Jun-young noted about 420,000 people participated in six CBDC-related petitions submitted to the National Assembly over the past two years.