# Metaverse Promotion Act **Entity class:** Legal, policy, or governance instrument **Type:** Legislation **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Primary source:** [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] ## Definition The Metaverse Promotion Act is the South Korean law named as support for the metaverse industry ecosystem. ## Relationships [[wiki/Metaverse Promotion Act|Metaverse Promotion Act]] is related to [[wiki/Digital Personhood|digital personhood]] only as adjacent legal context; the article does not equate it with an avatar-rights statute. <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED RELATIONSHIPS 2026-09-11 --> This entry's documented connections are expressed in its definition and related-work routes, with provenance retained in the source-linked material. <!-- END HUMANIZED RELATIONSHIPS 2026-09-11 --> ## Source route [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] · [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] ## Related Work in the Corpus <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED CORPUS ROUTES 2026-09-11 --> - In [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]], **Global Governance Drift, Neural Rights, and Biocybersecurity** provides the narrative context for **Metaverse Promotion Act**: South Korean courts in 2025 issued rulings recognizing virtual avatars as legally cognizable identity extensions—a defamation case involving virtual idol group Plave (May 2025) awarded ₩500,000 for insults directed at avatars. <!-- END HUMANIZED CORPUS ROUTES 2026-09-11 -->