The move follows a vote by the South Korean parliament to impeach Han Duck-soo, the prime minister and acting president, just weeks after impeaching President Yoon Suk Yeol. The won slumped a 15-year low against the dollar.

A key metric to gauge the interest in Bitcoin from investors in South Korea has risen this week to a four-month high, as the political turmoil in the East Asian country deepens.

South Korea’s stock market is in free fall. It’s chaos out there, and no one knows where the bottom is. The Kospi, the nation’s flagship index, is on its