• @Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca
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    909 months ago

    ahhh, profiteering off of often Low income people through gambling… Just what Squid Games was promoting…

    • paraphrand
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      69 months ago

      A quick google shows some terrible House of Cards and Orange is the New Black machines. Surprisingly, nothing for Stranger Things.

      • JJROKCZ
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        59 months ago

        Most places take targeting children with gambling very seriously so putting kids on a slot machine probably wouldn’t fly

        • paraphrand
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          29 months ago

          I’ve never seen Stranger Things. I didn’t realize it was rated TV-14 or intended to be family friendly.

  • Praise Idleness
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    229 months ago

    Fun fact) Slot machines in Korea is illegal. The only casino Koreans can use is government-run. Even doing it oversea and coming back is illegal.

    • @miseducator@lemmy.world
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      109 months ago

      Korea has casinos, but only non-Koreans can visit them, which usually leads to a lot of Chinese and Japanese tourists playing baccarat.

      There aren’t any laws for Koreans gambling overseas though. You might be thinking of Koreans using drugs overseas while visiting places that legalized it. That is illegal and Koreans can get hit with a drug test on arrival to Korea after visiting Amsterdam, Thailand, or any other place where they might have partaken.

      • Praise Idleness
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        9 months ago

        There aren’t any laws for Koreans gambling overseas though

        Nope. 속인주의 (nationality principle) is a thing here. Any criminal things you do outside the country is to be punished if you are Korean.

        There are a lot of celebrities who fucked up their career because of that. The government is not that nonsensical though so you won’t get (realistically) punished over few hundred dollars but if you go over that, not only you will get punished for gambling, but you’ll also get punished for Foreign Exchange Transactions Act violation, since you are not likely to have brought that much of a money outside the country legally.

        Tldr; It’s illegal. South Korean law will follow you wherever you go if you are Korean.

  • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    179 months ago

    Irony is dead. Irony remains dead. And we have killed it. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?