International wage differential in virtual world?

September 30th, 2005 Jun Sok Huhh

Sep. 28th, the National Police Agency of Korea(NPA) announced the arrest of professional item traders who has offended the law of Korea.

According to the announcement, a group of Korean and Chinese traders who set up for item transaction hacked some Korean web-sites to get National Registration Numbers(a lot like Social Security Number, but it's more important information for Korean). With this hacking, they stole the information about 53,000 people, and made about 120,000 ID of online games. Chinese partners who had arranged and operated sweatshops took their virtual products (made in China) over to Korean partners. They sold those items in Korean trading market. From 2003 to Aug. this year, they've earned about 100 million US dollar for this transaction from which around 60 million were remitted to their Chinese partners by illegal way.

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September 29th, 2005 Administrator

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