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Unchained

How Will the Legal Case Against Do Kwon Play Out in South Korea? - Ep. 401

Unchained

Laura Shin

News, Tech News, Business News

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Zack Guzman, journalist and Coinage host, and Jongbaek Park, partner specializing in blockchain and crypto assets at Bae, Kim & Lee, discuss how the case in South Korea against Do Kwon and TerraForm Labs will likely go, whether Do Kwon is on the run, and what his sentence could be.    Show highlights: Jongbaek’s and Zack’s disclosures regarding Terra how big the Terra phenomenon was in South Korea and how Do Kwon was perceived in the country whether Do Kwon posed any conditions for his interview with Zack what Do Kwon is being charged with the colliding opinions on which tokens are considered securities whether the collapse of Terra had any negative impact on the South Korean President’s image whether Do Kwon feels like a charge for violating the capital markets law is unfair whether Do Kwon is “on the run,” despite his denials how the potential revocation of Kwon’s passport could make him go back to Korea whether Terra was a failure or a fraud, and how prosecutors are looking into it whether Terra was centralized  the chance of prosecutors going after other people from Terraform Labs and the probability of the entity’s assets being frozen how much jail time Kwon could be facing and whether he is prepared to go to prison     Thank you to our sponsors! Crypto.com a16z Chainalysis   Guests:   Jongbaek Zack: Twitter   Episode Links Previous Coverage of Unchained on Do Kwon and Terra: Do Kwon Is Backing UST With Bitcoin – And Here’s What Else He Is Building The Legal and Regulatory Fallout From Terra’s Collapse: Who Will Pay? The Chopping Block: Does the New Terra Have Any Chance? Hester Peirce’s Former Counsel on Terra 2.0, XRP and a Bitcoin Spot ETF Why Terra Collapsed and Whether an Algo Stablecoin Can Ever Succeed   SEC Actions Against Terra SEC Investigating UST Stablecoin Blowup in Fresh Threat to Terra Terraform Labs Loses US Appeal over SEC Subpoena Allegations against Do Kwon Seoul Police Probe Allegation of Embezzlement by Terraform Staff South Korea Launches Investigation into Company Behind Luna Crypto Crash Class action against Do Kwon Was LUNA a Security? Korean prosecutors are looking into Terra Do Kwon  Red Notice “Not on the run” Kwon’s Passport Stablecoin Regulation Stablecoin Draft Bill Yellen cites UST stablecoin risk after it loses its dollar peg   Haseeb Qureshi’s summary of the Terra collapse: Zack’s Interview with Kwon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, all.

0:01.0

I'm sure you've been following the dramatic news about Do-Kwon.

0:04.4

The recent arrest warrant, a South Korean court released, the revelation that he is not

0:08.6

in Singapore, which until recently was the place he called home, and finally just before

0:13.4

the publication of this episode, Interpol's issuance of a red notice to arrest Do-Kwon,

0:19.4

which went out to law enforcement worldwide.

0:22.2

After the arrest warrant was issued, Kwon published a tweet thread that began, quote,

0:26.8

Dear CT, meaning Crypto Twitter, I will tell you what I am doing and where I am if,

0:33.0

one, we are friends, two, we have plans to meet, three, we are involved in a GPS-based Web

0:39.7

3 game. Otherwise, you have no business knowing my GPS coordinates.

0:45.0

In order to learn more about the charges Kwon is facing and what he himself might be thinking,

0:50.1

I invited South Korean crypto lawyer Jong-Bek Park and Zach Guzman, the only person who

0:56.2

has interviewed Kwon since the collapse of Tara, about what could happen to the Korean founder.

1:01.5

As we disclose right up front, both of these guests have some conflicts of interest. However,

1:06.6

it's challenging to find a South Korean crypto lawyer with zero ties to Tara Luna,

1:11.0

and I was satisfied that Jong-Bek's financial relationship with Tara ended a while back,

1:15.7

and that he had the requisite knowledge to educate my largely Western audience.

1:20.4

Zach's company has investment from Terraform Labs, but as you'll hear, he was able to give us

1:25.4

insight into Do's recent thinking around the kind of charges he faces that I've found valuable

1:31.7

and, frankly, newsworthy. After we wrapped, Jong-Bek mentioned a nuance that we hadn't discussed

1:38.1

during the show. He said that in Korea, this is a criminal case, and prosecutors are asserting

1:43.8

that Luna is a security, but that is not coming from the Korean Financial Services Commission,

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