November 28th, 2006 Jun Sok Huhh
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20061123p2a00m0na023000c.html
It's intriguing in that gold-farming connection of RMT transactions with other cheap-labor nations is one of important aspects in every regions which have emerging culture of online gaming including Korea.
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November 23rd, 2006 Jun Sok Huhh
According to an article of a Korean newspaper, if a recent proposed bill named “Amendment for Game Industry Promoting Law” be through the National Assembly, all kinds of mediating businesses between in-game money and real money could be punished.
The amendment adds the former original bill to a clause for prohibiting acts of exchanging in-game money to real money. This tells that anyone cannot do her business for ‘exchanging’ or ‘mediating’ exchanges of, and 'repurchasing' outcomes of games by real money. The 'outcomes' mentioned include in-game money, all kinds of in-game points, but in-game items are not among these.
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