{"id":"tp-175","type":"article-newspaper","title":"Digital Currency and Blockchain Weekly Round-up – August 17th, 2018","author":"Shampa Mani","publisher":"TOKENPOST Inc.","url":"https://www.tokenpost.com/news/technology/175","datePublished":"2018-08-17T12:10:03.000Z","dateModified":"2018-08-17T12:10:03.000Z","language":"en","abstract":"South Korea to raise investment in big data, blockchain and sharing economy to over 1 trillion won in 2019 The South Korean government has announced its big investment plans for blockchain and other cutting-edge techn…","section":"Technology","references":[{"title":"South Korea to raise investment in big data, blockchain and sharing economy to over 1 trillion won in 2019","url":"https://www.econotimes.com/South-Korea-to-invest-over-1-trillion-won-in-big-data-blockchain-and-sharing-economy-in-2019-1415579"},{"title":"South Korea’s Jeju Island seeks to become blockchain 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