South Korea's Financial Services Commission (FSC) has reported its first case of unfair trading under the Virtual Asset User Protection Act, which came into effect in July 2024 and requires local virtual asset service providers (VASPs) to report unusual trading and investigate unfair trading patterns. According to the FSC, the suspect used a "pump and dump" technique to manipulate the market, artificially inflating the price of a cryptocurrency by initiating multiple payers, and then selling a l...