The Audit Committee and the National Police Agency hold a week to recognize gambling problems to eradicate illegal gambling
Sep 11, 2025
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Since 2009, the Board of Audit and Inspection has been promoting various events every year by designating September 17, the inauguration date of the committee, as 'Gambling Addiction Deportation Day' and setting the week as 'Gambling Problem Awareness Week'.
The 17th anniversary of the gambling addiction deportation day will be held in the auditorium of the National Folk Museum of Korea on the 17th. The first part will hold commemorative ceremonies such as commendation of meritorious persons in the field of gambling problem prevention and healing, and the second part will be a special lecture on the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency's 'Illegal Gambling Status and Problems' followed by 'Prevention of Gambling Problems in the AI Era' (Professor Choi Jae-Bung of Sungkyunkwan University) and 'Healing' (Professor Lee Heon-joo of Yonsei University).
The Audit Committee and the Korea Gambling Problem Prevention and Healing Center (Director Shin Mi-kyung), which have declared the first year of eradicating illegal gambling and solving youth gambling problems in 2025, will carry out public service advertisements to eradicate illegal gambling throughout September to raise public awareness and participation in the growing gambling problem and its harmful effects, and will also carry out online campaigns to eradicate illegal gambling together with the National Police Agency and gambling companies. In addition, various projects such as problem gambler stay-at-home healing program (19-21st, Kangwon Land) and problem gambler recovery challenge (October 2025, National Sports Promotion Agency) will be carried out.
In addition, on the 18th, a briefing session will be held in the training room of the Gallup Research Institute of Korea for the Sixth Illegal Gambling Survey. In the briefing session involving experts, the progress of the investigation is shared and measures to improve the system are sought together. Then, at a workshop on illegal gambling monitoring and crackdown-related organizations at the National Folk Museum of Korea on the 19th, cases of monitoring and crackdown on illegal gambling industries will be shared and pending issues will be discussed.
It will also strengthen its response to increasing illegal gambling sites. The Audit and Inspection Committee will intensively monitor and analyze illegal gambling financial accounts, and investigative agencies will conduct strict investigations. In addition, a two-month special reporting period will be operated from September to allow middle and high school counselors to report illegal gambling sites used by counseling youth to the Audit Committee, and the Korea Communications Standards Commission will quickly block the reported sites.
The chairman of the Audit Committee, Shim Do-taek, said, "Since increasing illegal gambling is a serious social problem that not only threatens a healthy society, but also addicts youth, soldiers, and the general public..." We will expand monitoring and crackdown on illegal gambling, which is becoming more sophisticated, and strengthen youth gambling prevention education and public relations activities to minimize and eradicate illegal gambling damage."," he stressed.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
