Sports Promotion Corporation promotes illegal gambling prevention campaign in the face of gambling problem awareness week

Sep 11, 2025

The Seoul Olympic Memorial National Sports Promotion Foundation announced that it will promote the need to prevent illegal gambling and launch a campaign to protect vulnerable groups such as teenagers and military personnel in the wake of the 'Gambling Problem Awareness Week (15th~21st)."

The Sports Corporation will push for a campaign to eradicate illegal gambling linked to 'National Fitness 100' to alert the public to the gambling problem from the 15th. Customers who complete the physical fitness certification by visiting the direct management centers of Songpa, Asan, Gwangju, and Daegu 'National Physical Fitness 100' can receive a gifticon through simple quiz solving and mobile sound pledges.

In addition, the Sports Corporation produced a video called 'military gambling swamp' to inform the risk of illegal gambling in the military through cooperation with the Ministry of National Defense and the Korea Gambling Problem Prevention and Healing Center and released it on each institution's YouTube channel. The video was well received by Yoo Tae-yang of the famous idol group 'SF9' introducing the right way to deal with the story at the soldier's eye level, and will also be used for accident prevention education for military police in the future.

Policy suggestions for responding to illegal gambling among youth will also follow. Nam Pan-woo, head of the Sports Corporation's Illegal Response Center, will attend a debate on the theme of 「The Crisis of the Spread of Illegal Gambling and the Responsibility of Sports」 to present measures to prevent the spread of illegal gambling among youth.

Meanwhile, following this 'Gambling Problem Awareness Week', the Sports Corporation will continue to make efforts to prevent damage caused by illegal gambling and to spread a healthy sports culture.

This article was translated by Naver AI translator.