Asset × Country · Legal Status

How to Buy US Stocks from South Korea

US SHARESRestricted REGULATORFSC CANBORSAAvailable

South Korea is liberalizing capital controls. Tax on foreign stocks depends on residency duration: residents of 5+ years are taxed on worldwide income; shorter-term residents are not taxed on foreign income.

NVIDIA · NVDA-PERPUS equity · from South Korea

Price · 24h—

Max leverage20x

Funding · APR—

From South KoreaAvailable

Canborsa fee0.07% per side

Trade NVDA on Canborsa ›

South Korea · at a glance

Restricted

broker routesBuying US shares from South Korea

us marketsUS names and indices on Canborsa

0.07%

0.14% round-tripCanborsa fee per side

2 rails

1 limits · 1 blockedFunding routes from South Korea

What the law actually says

Access rules in South Korea

Local routes

Interactive Brokers, Kakao Securities, NH Investment & Securities, Shinhan Investment.

The perpetual route

A US-equity perpetual tracks the share price and settles in crypto. There is no broker, no remittance and no share: it confers no votes and no dividends, and funding is charged or paid every 1h for as long as the position is open.

Regulator — South Korea

RegulatorFSC

Websitewww.fsc.go.kr

CryptoLegal

Access · routes

Three ways to reach a US share price from South Korea

Two routes buy the share. The third buys exposure to its price and nothing else.

01.

Domestic broker with a US partner

Your local broker routes the order to a partner in the United States. You hold real shares with voting and dividend rights, under full identity verification.

Real shares 4 routes

02.

International broker account

You open the account offshore yourself and remit under your country’s rules. Ownership is the same, and the reporting duties sit with you.

Real shares Capital limit applies

03.

Perpetual exposure on Canborsa

A US-equity perpetual tracks the share price and settles in crypto: no broker, no remittance, no share, no votes and no dividends. Funding is charged or paid every 1h while the position is open, and deposits arrive as USDC on six networks.

No ownership 0.07% per side

Rails · funding routes

Rail

Status

Note

KRW bank transfer via real-name verified account

LIMITS

Only works on exchanges with a real-name bank partnership; most platforms lost KRW trading in the 2021 registration round.

Bank account opening by minors and by foreigners

BLOCKED

Blocked since a 2018 measure barring under-18s and foreigners from opening bank accounts for crypto deposits.

Availability · route 03

US markets listed on Canborsa

23 US markets trade as perpetuals on Canborsa — 21 single names and 2 index contracts, all open from South Korea. Each one is a contract on the price.