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Game — Korea Regulation Monitor
What changed in Korea's game regime.
What changed
- 2026-09-21Bill Would Toughen Penalties for Illegal Game Private Servers — Now at Committee Review
- 2026-09-21Pending Bill Would Require Game Companies to Adopt Internal Controls Against Item and Data Leaks
- 2026-09-21Game Industry Act Amendment Advances: Domestic-Agent Rule Would Favor Your Own Korean Subsidiary
- 2026-09-21Pending Bill Would Require Korean Game Operators to Preserve User Data When a Service Shuts Down
- 2026-09-14MCST Notice: Corrective-Order Prior Notice for Probability-Item Disclosure Violation Served by Public Notification
- 2026-08-31Pending Bill: Korea Would Widen Game-Prize Rules but Add a Pre-Submission Duty
- 2026-08-31New Bill Would Force Foreign Game Publishers to Name Their Own Korean Subsidiary as Domestic Agent — and Add Suspension Power for Non-Compliance
Enforcement log
Enforcement actions and effective dates
- 2026-10Korea's culture ministry posted a corrective order on probabilistic-item disclosure, served by public notice.
- 2026-09Korea's culture ministry posted advance notice of a corrective order on probabilistic-item disclosure, served by public notice.
- 2026-06Korea's culture ministry posted a corrective order on probabilistic-item disclosure, served by public notice.
- 2026-06Korea's culture ministry posted advance notice of a corrective order on probabilistic-item disclosure, served by public notice.
- 2026-05Korea's culture ministry posted advance notice of a corrective order on probabilistic-item disclosure, served by public notice.
- 2026-01Korea's culture ministry posted a corrective order on probabilistic-item disclosure, served by public notice.
- 2025-12Korea's culture ministry posted a corrective order on probabilistic-item disclosure, served by public notice.
- 2025-12Korea's culture ministry posted advance notice of a corrective order on probabilistic-item disclosure, served by public notice.
What we're watching
Game Industry Act — domestic agent
MCST / GRAC
≥1,000 downloads/day or ₩1T revenue · in force Oct 2025
Probabilistic-item (loot-box) disclosure
MCST / GRAC
any probabilistic items sold to Korean players · since Mar 2024
Game ratings / classification
GRAC
every game distributed in Korea must carry a rating
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