On the 30th, President Yoon Suk Yeol held his seventh "People's Livelihood Debate with the People" in Pangyo.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism will gradually transfer game grade classification functions separated from the public and private sectors to the private sector.

It is the same as the overseas game classification method. In the end, the company plans to completely hand over the game to the private sector.

At a public welfare debate with the public, the government came up with a plan to "create an ecosystem for the game industry that increases the rights and interests of game users."

In the short term, the scope of private entrustment of rating classification will be expanded, and in the mid to long term, the game industry law will be revised similarly to the overseas game classification system by complete transfer of rating classification authority.

The Game Management Committee focuses on follow-up management and the basic rating is completely converted to private autonomy.

However, since it is a revision of the Game Industry Act, it will be carried out gradually.

The transfer will be carried out on mobile platforms first. The committee will entrust the division of mobile games to the Game Content Rating Board (GCRB), and will also seek to simplify the division of mobile games.

In the next step, GCRB will be entrusted with additional games that cannot be used by teenagers. Problems such as restrictions on purchasing adult games such as steam are expected to decrease.

The final stage will be converted to a completely autonomous classification of the private sector through additional revision of the Game Industry Act and separate incorporation of GCRB for complete autonomy of game grade classification.

When all stages proceed, the Game Committee will be reduced to a follow-up management agency.

However, he added that complete autonomy of the private sector has a great social ripple effect and requires a pre-emptive review, so social consensus such as collecting opinions from all walks of life is necessary.

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