The newspaper of Korea has reported that he Korean Ministry of Information and Communication announced the beefing up in monitoring measures at the internet gambling, this work is in conjunction with the related government agencies such as the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, National Police Agency, etc. at the crackdown at online gambling.
There was a revision just recently by the Game Industry Promotion Act in banning currency trade websites, this toughen the Game Rating Boards screen processing at the approved game sit, according to the Information Ministry.
According to the director of information safety team in the Information Ministry “Illegal online gambling sites sign up members through a secret IP address at a specific time. And such sites are hard to find because they are increasingly good at evading IP tracking.”
The ministry also said that the committee in ethics had the authority to ask local providers in networking in blocking the illegal websites; they will also request the police in investigating 3 local online websites in gambling and block 21 currency-trading gaming sites that were uncovered.
June 18, 2007, 11:52 am (1 year ago)
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