A bill amending the Game Industry Act was introduced on 28 August 2026 by Rep. Kim Jae-won and nine other lawmakers, and is currently at the "received" (접수) stage — it has not been enacted. As drafted, it would expand the range of game-related businesses permitted to offer prizes (경품) from the current narrow exception — limited to all-ages games at youth-arcade operators — to all game-related businesses except general game providers (일반게임제공업자). In exchange, any business offering prizes under the expanded rule would have to submit the content of the proposed prize offering to the regulator before offering it, with a corrective order (시정명령) available against violations (draft Article 28, paragraphs 1 and 3–5).
No effective date, revenue/user threshold, or fixed monetary penalty is specified in the bill text at this stage — only the corrective-order remedy.
What this means for you
- No action required yet. This is a newly introduced bill, not current law. The prize-offering ban and its narrow youth-arcade exception remain in force as-is until/unless this passes.
- If you operate a game-related business other than a general game provider and currently avoid prize-style promotions or rank/score-based differentiated rewards because of the existing ban, watch this bill. If enacted, you would gain the ability to offer such prizes, but only after submitting prize details to the regulator in advance.
- If you already offer prizes under the current limited exception, expect a new pre-submission step if this bill becomes law, and expect corrective orders as the enforcement tool for non-compliance rather than a fixed fine.
- Track committee progress before building any prize/reward feature around this expanded permission. Bills at the "received" stage can stall, be amended, or be merged into other revisions before any threshold, effective date, or penalty amount is finalized.
Source: (no source URL provided in the input)