{"id":55485,"date":"2026-06-17T06:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T06:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/55485\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T06:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T06:13:10","slug":"i-dont-make-coins-korean-youtuber-kwak-tube-dragged-into-crypto-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/55485\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I don\u2019t make coins’: Korean YouTuber Kwak Tube dragged into crypto debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Korean YouTuber Kwak Tube suffered collateral damage in the fallout from a cryptocurrency crash after a Hong Kong-based project founder replaced his social media profile photo with an image of the creator.<\/p>\n

\"South South Korean YouTuber Kwak Tube (left) and Humanity Protocol founder Terrence Kwok <\/p>\n

The confusion followed a hack targeting Humanity Protocol, a cryptocurrency project whose token recently lost more than 80 percent of its value, leaving investors facing heavy losses.<\/p>\n

As criticism mounted online, Humanity Protocol founder Terrence Kwok changed his profile picture to a photo of Kwak Tube, whose real name is Kwak Jun-bin. The switch led some users to mistakenly associate the Korean creator with the controversy. Although their surnames are spelled differently in English \u2014 Kwok and Kwak \u2014 they are pronounced the same in Korean.<\/p>\n

\"Screengrab Screengrab from Terrence Kwok\u2019s Instagram account showing Kwak Tube as the profile photo (Instragram) <\/p>\n

Kwak addressed the situation Wednesday on Instagram, denying any involvement in the project.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a YouTuber from Korea. I\u2019ve never even touched crypto. He stole my picture,\u201d he wrote in English.<\/p>\n

He followed it with a message in Korean: \u201cNever thought I\u2019d live to see the day someone uses me in a coin scam. I don\u2019t make coins.\u201d<\/p>\n

He then added, \u201cOf all people, it had to be a Kwak,\u201d pointing their common surname in Korean.<\/p>\n

Terrence Kwok, a Hong Kong entrepreneur, is known for founding Tink Labs, a startup that previously reached unicorn status.<\/p>\n

milaya@heraldcorp.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Korean YouTuber Kwak Tube suffered collateral damage in the fallout from a cryptocurrency crash after a Hong…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31526,17899,6400,533,31524,31,31525,21850,31527],"class_list":["post-55485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-korea","tag-coin","tag-crash","tag-crypto","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-humanity-protocol","tag-korea","tag-kwak-tube","tag-photo","tag-terrence-kwok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}