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Kim Dan

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Lawyer, LAWVAX LLC

South KoreaLawyer

About

Kim Dan is a Korean lawyer. She graduated in English education from Seoul National University (2012) and from Seoul National University School of Law (2016), and completed doctoral coursework in financial regulation law at SNU in 2021. She passed the 5th Korean Bar Examination in 2016.

After starting at Hyosung law firm, she worked in-house at Daishin Securities from 2017 and at the crypto exchange Korbit from 2019, with a spell at Daangn Market and Daangn Pay in 2024 before returning to Korbit, where she headed the legal team. She joined LAWVAX in September 2025 and is a partner in its finance and virtual assets practice.

At Korbit she handled VASP licensing, listing reviews and AML/CFT compliance. Her LAWVAX profile lists work on FSS task forces on listing best practice and on guidelines for judging whether tokens are securities (2023), FSC and FSS task forces on guidelines for VASPs selling crypto and for non-profits cashing out virtual assets (2025), and a second review of Rep. Min Byung-deok's Digital Asset Basic Act (2025). She argues that corporates can only enter the Korean market in earnest if a regulated crypto derivatives market or legal access to overseas futures is allowed.

Policy engagement

Former head of legal at Korbit, handling VASP licensing, listing reviews and AML/CFT. Argues corporates can only enter the market in earnest if Korea allows a regulated crypto derivatives market or legal use of overseas futures.

Source: Digital Asset: full text of Kim Dan's presentation

Key actions

  1. Argued at a conference on opening the digital asset market to corporates that Korea should allow regulated crypto derivatives or legal use of overseas futures so firms can hedge.

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  2. Joined LAWVAX from Korbit, where she had headed the legal team.

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