• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.388-389
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• 2015

After being enforced web board game enforcement ordinance, the majority manufacturer of sales that had been operating a web board game was greatly reduced. This restriction is true and that it had a significant impact in preventing exchange and gambling resistance, abnormal use has occurred to still bypass. Therefore, in this study, you can either leave a note of the 'Web Board' sunset enforcement ordinance, and how the debate any changes are necessary and alternative dimension approach, especially we try to study an unusual user patterns that utilize the game system of responsibility as an alternative.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.183-184
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• 2016

This study aims to suggest relaxed regulation plans for web-board games by analyzing regulations on gambling games with online and mobile platforms. One of the controversial issues in the South Korean game industry these days is legal regulations related to 'gambling'. Gambling is one of its ambivalent factors, which is necessary for fun of these games but has risks of overindulgence and addiction. This study analysis the web-board enforcement ordinance from Feb. 2014 and current relaxed regulation. Moreover, we find the plan which will be relaxed to regulation under what safety net. We propose the solution of web-board regulation policy which is available for an adult.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.123-145
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• 2017

This study empirically examines the effects of regulation on online gaming. Going beyond ad hoc heuristic approaches on individual behavior, we investigate the effects of regulation on dynamic changes of games or service providers. In particular, we propose three theoretical perspectives: social influence to investigate the regulation effect, the role of prior experience to determine the difference in the regulation effect size through users' prior experience, and network externalities to discover the difference in the regulation effect size according to the number of users on an online gaming platform. We use the vector autoregression methodology to model patterns of the co-movement of online games and to forecast game usage. We find that online gamers are heterogeneous. Therefore, policy makers should make suitable regulations for each heterogeneous group to effectively avoid generating gaming addicts without interrupting the economic growth of the online gaming industry.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.11
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• pp.2039-2044
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• 2016

This study aims to investigate the safety instrument to prepare the policy alternative for social web-board game which will be developed to base on social network in the future although social casino game is not available in Korea now. We reviewed several literature about responsible game system applied to especially U.S. New Jersey, responsible gambling system acted in the being advanced all countries. Game experts built up user protection model as previous work to prepare the law and policy which such a responsible game system will apply for current web-board gaem and future social casino game. As a result, this research revealed that standard of judgement which can identify four kind of addiction danger user group are raised. We expect to help this user protection alternative to provide the law and policy instrument for future social casino game and complement the problem of current web-board enforcement.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.109-115
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• 2014

Sales of online games companies that began from the small and medium-sized ventures, have grown to billions or hundreds of million dollars to target the global market. The issues related with industrial policies and regulations for game industry gain attentions. In particular, the Korean government has strengthened the relevant regulations of the webboard game service across many departments within the government such as Media Rating Commission, Game Products Administrative Committee, Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Sports, and Ministry of Female and Family. In this study, we analyze the effects of government regulation on webboard games using a VECM(Vector Error Correction Model). We have acquired the Gametrix time-series data during a year since July 2013. Having the co-integration estimated in the analysis process, we attempt to identify the long-term equilibrium relationship within webboard game industry and predict use time in near future. The results show that the use time has decreased to a third to a fourth comparing to the initial value at the beginning point in 2013. Two representative webboard games are exposed to the significant risks to have less or no use time. Additionally, we discuss the issues of the overall game industry influenced by the changes of webboard games.