Unggi Yoon on Terra Nova reports that
- “Korean IRS is seriously considering the matters of levingy taxes on RMT”
- “a Korean prosecutor who is in charge of anti-cybercrime division in Supreme Prosecutors’s Office stated that the act of RMT is the violation of korean criminal code §314(Do not distrub other’s business/service), so the traders should be punished and games shoue be kept as game”
As Ted Castronova notes, these do seem like two incompatible approaches. The former also begs the question of whether taxable RMT means that the servers need to up their security and their reliability and their practices and start turning into banks (yikes).
The latter is interesting because it means someone in government is advocating the game side. A game player themselves? Not out of the question, seeing as some new stats are out:
