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Gyeonggi education office and KGCC agree school gambling prevention plan

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Gyeonggi Province’s Office of Education and South Korea’s Gambling Control Commission (KGCC) signed an agreement at Osan Seongho Middle School on Monday to strengthen gambling prevention in schools. The partners plan to coordinate policy, student protection, educational resources and access to prevention experts, and to develop pilot programmes whose operational data could inform a model for national use.

The plan could shape school-based gambling prevention programmes and future policy beyond Gyeonggi.

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