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A Study on the Casino Licensing Policies and Regulations in Korea

Kwang-Eik Cho 1 Chang Pyong Kwon 2

1대구가톨릭대학교
2호원대학교

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ABSTRACT

Casino licensing policies and regulations are controversial issues in Korean society due to dual aspects of casino, as economic tools to create jobs and incomes and as a cause of making gambling addicts. Specially, after since casino was established almost 60 years ago in Korea, social consensus on how casino and casino industry should be managed, regarded, or perceived was not firmly formed yet in our society. In this paper, casino licensing policies and regulations of Korean governments was reviewed through examining several special acts, such as special act on designation and management of free economic zones, special act on the development of enterprise cities, special act on the assistance to the development of abandoned mine areas, special act on the establishment of Jeju special self-governing province and the development of free international city, and special act on support and promotion of the Saemangeum project. Also tourism promotion act is reviewed for studying Korean casino licensing policies and regulations. After reviewing special acts and tourism promotion act, discussions and several suggestions on amendment for casino licensing policy and regulation are followed.

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