The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has published Notice No. 2026-0362 in the official gazette, serving a prior notice of a corrective order (시정명령) by public notification (공시송달) on a game business operator found to have violated the probability-type item information display obligation. Public notification is used when the party cannot be reached directly, and it is addressed to game-related businesses affected by this specific disclosure violation. The notice gives the recipient an opportunity to submit an opinion before the corrective order is finalized; no threshold or general effective date applies, as this is a case-specific enforcement notice.
What this means for you
- Check whether you are the addressee. Public notification is the fallback service method MCST uses when it cannot deliver a notice to a business directly — if your company has had difficulty receiving official correspondence at a registered address in Korea, or if you have an open probability-item disclosure matter with GRAC/MCST, confirm your status against this gazette notice.
- Treat the opinion-submission window as running now. Public notification is legally treated as service, whether or not you have actually seen it. If you are the addressee, the deadline to submit an opinion is running from the gazette publication, not from when you happen to notice it.
- Do not wait for a final corrective order. This is a *prior* notice — the corrective order is not yet finalized. Submitting an opinion within the stated deadline is your opportunity to respond before the disposition is confirmed.
- Confirm your domestic-agent or address-of-service arrangements. A public-notification case is often a symptom of a service-address gap. If you distribute into Korea without a reliably reachable Korean address or agent, this is worth resolving independently of this specific notice.
Source: https://gwanbo.go.kr/ezpdf/customLayout.jsp?contentId=I0000000000000001788852038779000&tocId=I0000000000000001788766738572000&isTocOrder=N