Minor illegal sports gambling ‘warning lights’ → “Social awareness needs”
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input2025-07-20 15:25:41
(Sports Seoul | Reporter Kang Yun -sik) The Korean Sports Leisure, a consignment operator of Sports Promotion Voting rights issued by the National Sports Promotion Agency, said, “Recently, the situation in which minors are easily exposed to illegal sports gambling continues.
All forms of sports betting, including Sports Toto’s unique games, Toto and Prototy, are illegal. In particular, the use of minors under the age of 19 is legally prohibited.
The current National Sports Promotion Act is illegal to sell the right to vote for a sports promotion or to provide refunds to minors. If you do this, you may be imprisoned for up to three years or fined up to 30 million won. In addition, the operators of illegal gambling sites, as well as those who participate in the site can be sentenced to imprisonment for up to five years or fines of up to 50 million won, requiring special attention from minors.
Recently, the development of smartphones and online platforms has made it easier to access illegal sports gambling sites by minors. In particular, advertising through SNS and community encourages the temptation of ‘easy profit’, and is encouraging young people’s curiosity and impulse participation.
The problem does not stop here. Beyond simple financial losses, there is a growing risk of leaking personal information, threatening, theft, and fraud through personal information leakage and surrogate betting.
The government and related agencies continue to crack down on illegal sports gambling sites. However, as the site operation is becoming sophisticated day by day, the importance of education and awareness improvement activities to respond to this is becoming more prominent.
In this regard, an official from Korea Sports Leisure said, “Illegal sports gambling is not just a game, but an obvious criminal act.” “We plan to continue to carry out continuous prevention education and campaigns to prevent the influx of minors.” skywalker@sportsseoul.com
