'Illegal sports gambling targeting teenagers should never be used!'
Nov 20, 2024
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Sports gambling, such as the release of similar sites that mimic Sports Toto's unique games, such as Toto and Proto, is all considered illegal. In addition, regardless of legal or illegal, adolescents cannot use them all in any case.
Sports Toto, a sports promotion voting ticket in Korea, and Betman, an official Internet release site, are both legal. 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 tickets 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.
Teenagers who participated in the 2025 College Scholastic Ability Test, which was conducted on the 14th, should also pay more attention. This is because there are many cases of attracting teenagers who have relatively increased personal time after the CSAT through illegal gambling advertisements online.
In particular, illegal sports gambling sites with servers abroad use a lot of phrases far from reality, such as false facts that are 'state-approved sports betting', raising concerns that the damage cases and amount of illegal sports gambling by teenagers will increase.
An official from Sports Toto Korea said, `The number of teenagers experiencing illegal sports gambling online continues to increaseAttention to this, Sports Toto Korea will do its best to eradicate the indiscriminate use of illegal sports gambling by teenagers.
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wman@sportschosun.com
