South Korea Passes Laws to Formalize STO Issuance and Trading Framework

The evidence overwhelmingly supports the statement's truthfulness. The most authoritative source is a direct press release from South Korea's Financial Services Commission (FSC), the relevant government body, which explicitly announces that amendments to the Electronic Securities Act and the Capital Markets Act to introduce security tokens have passed the plenary session of the National Assembly. This primary source provides direct confirmation that the laws were passed.This is strongly corroborated by multiple high-authority South Korean news outlets, including a major financial newspaper and a leading business newspaper, which report the formal establishment of this legal framework. Further support comes from various crypto-industry news platforms that consistently report the same legislative event.Some sources report on delays in the implementation phase, such as the licensing of STO market operators. However, these reports do not contradict the statement; they actually reinforce it by referring to the "new STO legal framework" and the "recently established legal framework" that is now being put into practice. The statement is about the *passage of laws* to create the framework, not its full operational rollout, a distinction the evidence clearly supports. With the exception of one completely irrelevant source concerning a U.S. regulatory body, all relevant sources are consistent and point to the same conclusion.