"Let's protect the youth." Sports Toto Warns Youth to Use Illegal Sites During the Olympics
Jul 31, 2024
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Sports Toto Korea, a trustee of Sports Toto, a sports promotion voting ticket issued by the National Sports Promotion Foundation, once again urged teenagers to pay attention to illegal sports betting and illegal sports gambling sites during the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Sports Toto, a sports promotion voting ticket in Korea, and Betman, an official Internet release site, are both legal.
However, sports gambling, such as the release of similar sites that imitate it, is considered illegal. In no case can adolescents use all of them, legal or illegal. This is also true during the period of 'Sports Big Events' such as the World Cup and the Olympics.
Under the current National Sports Promotion Act, youths can face up to three years in prison or a fine of up to 30 million won if they violate the purchase restriction that they should not sell sports promotion voting rights or pay refunds.
In addition, teenagers should pay special attention to this point because it stipulates that not only illegal sports gambling operators but also those who participate will be sentenced to up to five years in prison or fined up to 50 million won.
Despite these regulations, games targeting the Olympic Games are prevalent on illegal sports gambling sites with servers overseas as the Paris Olympics opened on July 26. As a result, there is a concern that the cases and amount of damage caused by illegal sports gambling by adolescents will increase.
Adolescents must be careful because illegal sports gambling sites use a lot of phrases far from reality, such as false statements that are 'state-permitted sports betting'.
An official from Sports Toto Korea said "It is expected that the number of teenagers experiencing illegal sports gambling without any caution after the opening of the Olympics will increase."Attention was paid to this, and Sports Toto Korea will do its best to eradicate the indiscriminate use of illegal sports gambling by teenagers.
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