South Korean Regulators Prepare for Spot Crypto ETFs This Year

The South Korea Financial Services Commission submitted plans for the introduction of Crypto ETF to the second half of 2025 on Thursday, which marked the reversal of previously restrictive crypto policies in the country while the new government takes the helm.

The map of the road, submitted to the Chairman’s Committee on Policy Planning, describes the implementation measures for the Crypto ETF Spot, at the same time establishing investors protection frames, including detention, operations and evaluation standards, states in the initial standards report from Japthe largest news agency in the country.

The plan would take into account “the risks associated with the connection of the financial and virtual assets, influencing the actual economy and the use of investors,” said the State Planning Committee.

The FSC Plan also includes the Restrictions on the Korean Stablecoins based on winningresolving concern about the outflow of domestic capital. The Commission has previously banned the CRIPTO ETF, citing the risks of financial stability and observing the crypto currency as inappropriate basic assets.

But although the plans are ambitious, their details are not final and they will still need to discuss by the land of the country, the regulator said.

“Specific details about the issues in the briefing of the National Planning Committee are difficult to confirm and not completed,” a rough translation A statement Issued on Friday by FSC reading.

The Commission also works to process phase approval for institutional crypto trading, signaling wider reform This could see the liberalization of the market.

These regulatory changes seem to be fulfilled by President Lee Jae-Myung a campaign pledge In order to approve the spot Crypto ETF, after a successful launch in the US that directed billions of institutional capital and launched Bitcoin to record high.

The newly elected Government’s friendly attitude Crypto has continued since then. Earlier this month, he proposed The Law on Digital Property, which, if approved, would allow local companies to issue their stable bones.

Observers in the industry expect to launch ETF to follow similar risk assessments used in traditional markets, especially “around regulatory framework, coordination of monetary policy and technical implementation,” said Min Jung, an analyst of Presto Research, said, said Decipher earlier this month.

Edited Sebastian Sinclair