{"id":32548,"date":"2022-08-11T05:16:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T08:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=32548"},"modified":"2026-04-23T06:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T09:00:15","slug":"south-korea-police-investigate-suspected-illegal-gambling-website-with-7300-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/south-korea-police-investigate-suspected-illegal-gambling-website-with-7300-staff","title":{"rendered":"South Korea: police investigate suspected illegal gambling website with 7,300 staff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police in Jeonju have arrested 11 people and are investigating another six over an illegal gambling website aimed at foreign gamblers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>South Korea.-\u00a0Police are investigating 17 people over an illegal gambling website\u00a0that they have suggested was worth <strong>KRW120bn (US$92.1m)<\/strong>. The site had allegedly been targetting overseas gamblers since January 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police detected the operation in South Chungcheong Province. According to Yonhap News, 11 people have been arrested and another six are being investigated. They said they believed nearly<strong>\u00a07,300 people were employed at five offices<\/strong>\u00a0to pay gambling bonuses or provide currency exchange services. Officials said the operation moved offices every two or three months to avoid police surveillance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Korea has strict rules related to the gaming industry. Local citizens can only wager on boat racing, bike racing, horse racing and participate in lotteries. They are also allowed to gamble in&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/kangwon-lands-average-betting-price-was-us91-80-in-2021\" target=\"_blank\">selected casinos<\/a>. However, online gambling is prohibited.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Jeonju have arrested 11 people and are investigating another six over an illegal gambling website aimed at foreign gamblers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"South Korean authorities in Jeonju have arrested 11 individuals and are investigating six others in connection with an illegal online gambling operation. The illicit website, estimated to be worth KRW120bn (US$92.1m) and active since January 2018, allegedly targeted foreign gamblers, employing approximately 7,300 people across five offices to facilitate transactions and evade surveillance.","focusai_entities":"","focusai_location":"South Korea, Jeonju, South Chungcheong Province","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.8), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), affiliate_publisher (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Market Liberalization?","query":"What are the long-term implications of this significant enforcement action on the potential for future iGaming market liberalization or the introduction of B2C licensing frameworks in South Korea?"},{"label":"AML & Payment Evasion?","query":"Given the scale and operational sophistication, what specific anti-money laundering (AML) and payment evasion tactics were employed by this illicit network, and how can legitimate payment processors enhance detection?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,439],"tags":[229,23911],"class_list":["post-32548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-legal-news","tag-gambling","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32548"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32564,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32548\/revisions\/32564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}