South Korea's FSC explores tokenization path as memory chips continue to drive growth

South Korea’s top financial regulator has laid out a three-stage plan to tokenize stocks, bonds, and funds on a blockchain. 

This new system will open a new set of trading options for South Korea at the same moment its memory-chip exports are posting record numbers. 

How will South Korea tokenize stocks, bonds and funds? 

South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) has laid out a clear three-stage plan to tokenize traditional securities like stocks, bonds, and funds on a blockchain. The commission published its roadmap after the third meeting of a public-private consultative body on tokenized securities, held at the Korea Securities Depository in Seoul. 

The plan builds infrastructure that can be applied to what the regulator called “all types” of securities, not just the fractional-investment products the earlier framework focused on.

The first phase of the plan kicks off when the amended securities law takes effect on February 4, 2027, and the types of securities that will be tokenized include privately placed money-market funds and corporate bonds for institutional investors, unlisted stocks issued through a trust structure, and publicly offered fractional-investment securities. 

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