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South Korea
South Korea issues a mobile resident registration card, rolled out nationwide in February-March 2025, and runs a bank-led deposit token pilot, Project Hangang, with phase 2 from September 2026.
Digital ID · Goal 16.9
Digital ID in South Korea
- Program
- Resident registration card; mobile resident registration card
- Status
- Available, partial uptake
- National ID card
- ID card compulsory
- Biometrics
- Yes
The mobile resident card has the same legal validity as the plastic card, requires biometric verification and is limited to one phone per person. Nationwide issuance ended in March 2025. Fifteen banks accept it for account opening.
Digital money · Goal 8.10
Central bank digital currency
- Status
- Pilot
- Name
- Digital won (Project Hangang)
Phase 1 ran April-June 2025 with about 81,000 wallets. Phase 2 starts in September with nine banks and up to 500,000 users, adding person-to-person transfers and testing programmable government subsidies. Commercial banks issue the deposit tokens.
UN and WHO
How South Korea has voted
- WHO
- Accepted the 2024 rule changes
- Pandemic Agreement (May 2025)
- No recorded objection
- Migration compact (Dec 2018)
- Voted yes
- Paris climate deal
- Party
- SDG Index 2026
- 78.4 · rank 34 of 169
- Progress reports to the UN (VNRs)
- 1
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Country research checked Oct 2026. Tracker data checked 11 Oct 2026. Every claim links to its source.