- South Korea’s Democratic Party has reportedly included tokenized real-world assets and stablecoins in its proposed Digital Asset Basic Act.
- The proposal would require issuers of tokenized RWAs to place the linked assets into managed trusts under the Capital Markets Act
South Korea appears to be moving toward a more familiar regulatory path for digital assets, one that leans less on inventing entirely new rules and more on fitting tokenized products into frameworks the financial system already knows.
According to local reporting, the Democratic Party of Korea has included provisions for tokenized real-world assets, or RWAs, in its draft Digital Asset Basic Act. The reported approach would require issuers of tokenized RWAs to deposit the underlying assets into a managed trust, as prescribed under the Capital Markets Act. Further details would then be set out by presidential decree.
Existing law, repurposed for tokenized finance
That structure matters because it suggests lawmakers are trying to anchor digital asset products to established legal machinery rather than treat them as something entirely separate. For tokenized RWAs, the trust requirement looks like an attempt to tie onchain instruments to clearly ring-fenced underlying assets, which is usually where questions around investor protection start.
The same reporting indicates stablecoins may also be pulled into existing financial frameworks. That would fit a broader trend in South Korea, where debates around stablecoin issuance have become one of the main bottlenecks holding up the wider Digital Asset Basic Act.
Delays are already hitting local blockchain firms
The timing is not accidental. Seoul Economic Daily reported Wednesday that delays to the Digital Asset Basic Act are already straining local blockchain companies, some of which built stablecoin infrastructure expecting legislation to pass earlier. In some cases, firms have developed the technology but still cannot launch commercial operations because the legal basis remains unfinished.
So this is not just a drafting exercise anymore. For South Korea’s digital asset sector, the question has shifted from whether regulation is coming to what kind of regulatory architecture will emerge first, and whether it arrives quickly enough for domestic firms to use it before momentum moves elsewhere.
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