South Korea’s Ruling Party Seeks Crypto Tax Delay

The push matters less as a tax story than as a sequencing argument: the ruling party is effectively saying the framework should exist before the levy does, which puts the burden on legislators to deliver the former rather than simply postpone the latter. With the legal start date still fixed, the gap between political intent and statute is the real signal for Korean digital-asset participants. Whether the postponement gains formal traction, or the framework debate absorbs it, is the open question.