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Is online gambling legal in South Korea?

South Korea allows only state-authorised sports toto and treats online casinos as illegal.

Online casinos
not legal
Sports betting
state monopoly
Regulator
Licensing
Only government-authorised gambling is legal, including sports toto (sports promotion betting). All other online gambling is illegal and can be reported to the NGCC's illegal gambling centre.
Crypto payments
Not stated by the regulator.

Crypto casinos that accept players from South Korea (29)

Their own restricted-countries lists don't include South Korea.

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Not listed as restricted, but check first (9)

These casinos don't name South Korea, but say their list isn't complete.

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Crypto casinos that restrict South Korea (3)

These casinos name South Korea in their own restricted-countries list.

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Licensed operators

Sports betting in Korea is limited to the sports promotion betting tickets (체육진흥투표권, Sports Toto) issued by the Korea Sports Promotion Foundation under the National Sports Promotion Act and supervised by the National Gambling Control Commission. KSPO's Sports Toto page names the Betman online site (베트맨 온라인 사이트) as its online sales channel but gives no web address for it, and the Commission's pages do not name the site. National Gambling Control Commission (사행산업통합감독위원회), with the Korea Sports Promotion Foundation (KSPO) as issuer of sports betting tickets ↗

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Sources

This is general information taken from regulators' and governments' own published pages, not legal advice. Gambling law changes; check the regulator's current rules before you play.

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