KOREA CONTINUES TO FIGHT ONLINE GAMBLING - Online-Casinos.com

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The South Korean newspaper Korea Times claims in an editorial this week that online gambling sites are "mushrooming" in the region despite the illegal nature of the practice...and it's at least in part due to insufficient official surveillance.

During October 2008, a 30 day crackdown produced more prosecutions than ever before, with the National Police Agency reporting the arrest of 1 681 people for Internet gambling. The figure was six times higher than the 248 apprehended a year before.

The agency said 113 are suspected of operating online gambling sites, while 525 are allegedly illegal cyber-money dealers. It added that 1 058 were caught actually gambling online. Seventy percent of the gamblers were in their 30s and 40s and 89 percent were male, while 731 of them were jobless.

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