{"id":152715,"date":"2025-09-18T13:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T13:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/152715\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T13:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T13:30:06","slug":"over-4000-teens-treated-for-gambling-addiction-in-south-korea-in-2024-tripling-2020s-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/152715\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 4,000 teens treated for gambling addiction in South Korea in 2024, tripling 2020\u2019s figure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SEOUL \u2013 Teenage gambling addiction is becoming a severe issue in Korea, as an increasing number of teens are being treated for gambling addiction, including nine elementary school children in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">A total of 4,144 teenagers in 2024 were treated at the Korea Problem Gambling Agency, an affiliate of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, a report by Representative Cho Gye-won of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea showed on Sept 18. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Nine of the patients were under the age of 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Over four years, the number of teens treated for gambling addiction has gone up \u2013 from 1,286 in 2020 to 1,242 in 2021, 1,460 in 2022, and 2,093 in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cTeenage gambling addiction is no longer the issue of delinquent individuals, but a social disaster that can lead to crimes, unease within the community and even homes falling apart,\u201d Mr Cho said, urging the state to systemise anti-gambling lessons at schools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The KPGA in 2024 surveyed 13,368 elementary (fourth through sixth grade), middle and high school students across the country. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The March results showed that 4.3 per cent of the respondents experienced some level of gambling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The survey, which was the first on a state level, indicated that this was not a one-off experience for many teens. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Some 19.1 per cent of the respondents who said they had gambled before said they had been gambling consistently for the past six months. THE KOREA HERALD\/ASIA NEWS NETWORK<\/p>\n<p>South KoreaChildren and youthGambling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEOUL \u2013 Teenage gambling addiction is becoming a severe issue in Korea, as an increasing number of teens&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-152715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}