PokerStars adds new live events in Latin America, Asian markets
PokerStars Festival 2017 will visit Panama and the Czech Republic in March, South Korea, Macau and Monaco in April, Chile in May, Spain in June and August, the Philippines in July and Uruguay in September, with more stops to come.

Korea battles illegal online sports betting sites
Korea is beset with illegal online sports gambling that is difficult to clamp down on.

South Korea: 31 arrested in volleyball match-fixing scandal
Match-fixing scandal involves 23 matches, 31 people arrested.

South Korea urged to fight illegal online gambling
South Korean government face call from addiction organizations to introduce online gambling ban.

South Korean baseball players busted for illegal online gambling
International news brief: Between 12 and 14 baseball players played Baccarat on an internet site, according to prosecutors.

Manila-based online gambling site busted South Korean officials
International news brief: South Korean prosecutors have busted an online gambling ring operated by Koreans from the Philippine capital Manila.

South Korea Shuts Down Gambling Sites
nternational News Brief: The South Korean government is continuing to shut down access to Korean-language gambling Web sites, whose operations are based in foreign countries.

Lotteries, Casinos Booming in South Korea
nternational News Brief: In what is seen as a harbinger of change in the pecking order in the South Korea’s legal gambling industry, lotteries and casinos are booming in contrast to a decline in the traditional industry’s mainstay of horse and bicycle racing.

Korean Online Casinos Win Big
International News Brief: HanGame, Netmarble, Pmang, and Mgame, local Internet sites providing online gambling games, recorded a 234.3 billion won revenue last year, from a mere 82.4 billion won in 2002.