Korea Gets Tough on Online Gambling

Filed in archive Casinos on September 14, 2006

The South Korean government has been working hard to shut down online gambling sites aimed at Koreans.

181 Korean-language gambling sites have been shut down this year - with the government collaborating with ISPs and portals. Almost 30% of those have been closed in the past month. All these sites are run on servers outside of Korea.

The limitations of blocking the sites is based on language - if they are in Korean then the government will try to block them. However, it realises it's almost impossible to ban non-Korean sites

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