Sports Toto is actively engaged in gambling addiction prevention activities to mark the week of awareness of gambling problems
Sep 05, 2024
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The 'Day of Elimination of Gambling Addiction' designated by the Gambling Industry Integration Supervision Committee is September 17 every year, and the week is operated as a gambling problem recognition week. In 2024, it will be held for about two weeks from the 9th to the 20th, coinciding with the Chuseok holiday. Sports Toto Korea will deliver a message to prevent gambling addiction through a relay campaign involving Sports Toto officials from the 16th of last month to the 20th of this month on the occasion of 'Gambling Addiction Deportation Day'. Sports commentators, Sejong Sports Toto women's soccer team squad and coach Yoon Deok-yeo will participate in the campaign and spread the slogan 'You, Me, Dando' along with photos of participation in the campaign through SNS.
In addition, the Sejong Civic Stadium on August 29 and Mokdong Baseball Stadium on the 1st held the 'Gambling Addiction Prevention Campaign' for sports game spectators. The audience gathered to watch the Sejong Sports Toto home game and the Bonghwangdaegi High School Baseball Tournament final (Gyeonggi Sanggo-Jeonju High School) received a sound purchase pledge and a screening test for gambling addiction, and the "Online Gambling Addiction Prevention Campaign" for Batman users will be held from the 13th.
In addition, from the 6th to the 8th, the 「2024 Healing Camp」 for over-immersed users will be held in Inje-gun, Gangwon-do. The camp will provide participants with time for self-reflection and healing through an art healing program in collaboration with Daegu Catholic University in Naecheon Rafting and Inje Speedium, Inje-gun, Gangwon-do.
Sports Toto Korea will also participate in the commemorative ceremony of the 16th Gambling Addiction Deportation Day held at the Olympic Parktel in Seoul on the 20th. The ceremony will be held under the supervision of the Audit Committee and the Korea Gambling Problem Management Center, and various programs (watching youth gambling problem prevention weekly videos, celebratory performances by the recovery choir, and competitions to prevent gambling problems) will be held to form a social consensus on the prevention and healing of gambling addiction. In addition, from the 23rd to the 29th, a campaign to prevent illegal sports gambling among youth, 'Please protect our children!' is scheduled to proceed. Betman users will be guided on how to protect their children from gambling problems, and various information such as self-inspection guidance on youth gambling problems (CAGI) will be provided along with youth protection pledges. An official from Sports Toto Korea said "We will do our best to promote the seriousness of the gambling problem through this gambling addiction prevention activity and to help customers using Sports Toto enjoy a healthy sports culture." he said.
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