South Korea is ramping up its fight against illegal online gambling, while a former pop princess is headed to prison for her ‘habitual’ land-based gambling activity.

Last week, South Korea’s National Police Agency announced that it was boosting its number of ‘cyber investigators’ to crack down on undesirable online content, including ‘cyber sexual violence’ and online gambling, the latter cited as responsible for “many social problems.”

The new dedicated anti-gambling cyber squad will set up shop in seven local government offices across the country, including the major cities of Seoul and Busan. For the record, that’s 10 less offices than the cyber sexual violence team was assigned when it was established in 2018.

South Korea doesn’t license any local online gambling operations and works hard to ensure its citizens can’t access internationally licensed sites. Last July, the Korea Communications Standards Commission reported handling nearly 120k requests for action against undesired online content, nearly 34k of which involved gambling sites.