Mirae Asset Financial Group has set a 150 trillion won ($109 billion) growth target for the digital-asset business centered on Digital X, adding scale and capital ambitions to the strategy it outlined when acquiring the South Korean cryptocurrency exchange formerly known as Korbit.
The Korea Times reported that founder and chairman Park Hyeon-joo presented the target at an employee event in Seoul on August 26. The group aims to make the business profitable in 2027 and is considering up to 300 billion won in additional capital. A possible 200 billion to 300 billion won third-party allotment could take place in the first quarter of 2027, depending on the pace of earnings improvement.
The 150 trillion won figure is a target for the size of the digital-asset business, not a disclosed investment commitment or current transaction volume. Mirae said it intends to build on the group’s 1,500 trillion won in client assets, but it did not disclose the metric that will define progress toward the target.
Stablecoins are one part of a broader platform plan
Digital X is expected to focus on four areas: crypto assets, stablecoins, real-world assets and security token offerings. The group also plans to tokenize assets including gold, silver and electricity, develop digital-asset financial products and make proprietary investments.
For payments-industry readers, the stablecoin component is potentially important because Mirae now controls a domestic exchange and can connect digital-asset distribution with a much larger financial-services group. However, the announcement did not identify a stablecoin issuer, reserve manager, banking partner, settlement network or merchant-acquiring model. It also did not say whether Digital X plans to issue a token, distribute third-party stablecoins or use stablecoins only within investment and trading products.
Those distinctions determine where regulated responsibilities would sit. Issuance introduces reserve, redemption and disclosure obligations; distribution raises customer-asset, suitability and transfer-control questions; and merchant or cross-border payment use would require a defined settlement model, liquidity arrangements and operational ownership.
Acquisition provides control, not proof of payment deployment
Mirae Asset Consulting acquired a 97.15% stake in Korbit in July for a cumulative 141.4 billion won and renamed the exchange Digital X. The earlier acquisition announcement described the platform as a bridge between traditional and digital assets, while the August presentation added the quantified growth target, profitability goal, possible capital injection and four-part business focus.
The ownership change gives Mirae a controlled distribution venue, but it does not establish that a stablecoin payment service or tokenized-asset settlement network is live. No launch timetable, customer segment, payment corridor, transaction forecast or fee structure was disclosed for the stablecoin business. The same caution applies to the plan to tokenize physical assets: the announcement did not identify the legal claims represented by those tokens, their custody model, trading venues or final settlement asset.
Execution disclosures will matter more than the headline target
The next useful indicators will be more concrete than the 150 trillion won ambition. Industry participants should watch for regulatory filings, capitalization decisions, named product launches and evidence that Mirae has assigned the issuer, distributor, custodian and settlement roles. Disclosures explaining how the group measures the target would also make it possible to distinguish client assets, tokenized asset value, exchange balances and payment throughput.
Until those details emerge, Digital X should be treated as a financed platform strategy with stablecoins among its planned business lines—not as a completed payment network or a commitment to invest $109 billion.