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Korea is not flipping a switch on $7 trillion. · 1 of 4

Chapter 01

Recognition first, coverage second

First the record is legal. Then it has to stay up. Then the products widen. Then the money.

Financial infrastructure changes when the law agrees that a new kind of record can be the record, not when a conference announces that everything is onchain. Korea’s sequencing follows that order. A tokenised share or bond is treated as a regulated security in a new technical form. Issuance, investor protection, account management and market conduct do not fall away because the register is programmable.

That is the opposite of launching a crypto asset and asking the securities law to catch up. The statute stays in the chair. The database changes.