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In my opinion, RMT is inevitable and it’s not an activity which a government can ban. It’s already a
mainstream in Korea.
I can say that RMT mediating companies like ITEMMANIA, ITEMBAY’s daily basis operation would get affected in some processes,
however they won’t get banned.

Recently, Korean government is focusing on
how to impose a tax to farmer’s RMT activities (*people
who are living with the income after selling their virtual products which are
obtained in game) but not light gamers. Not only imposing taxes but trying to ‘save people who are drowned in virtual world’ to let them find something more constructive things from real
world.

On 1997, Korean government had a financial
shock and due to IMF, lot of people lost their job. Such people who lost their
job wanted a virtual life where they can forget of their desperate reality.
Very soon, RMT became a trend in Korea and people thought that they
could make a fortune only with playing game and it worked somehow actually.
Moreover, Korean government had ‘brainwashed’ people with 3S policy (Screen, Sex, Sports); E-Sports. What the
heck? They were giving some hope to losers that someday you might be a hero and
earn money only by playing games! Yes, only few people got a spotlight and
became an e-sports star but the majority was still remaining as a loser
wandering the virtual world.

“Enjoying a blackjack game in a casino with
enough self discipline aren’t a big problem but spending
whole of your money and your time playing blackjack hoping you would win all
the money which you have lost doesn’t look as
a sound person.”

I’m not sure
what exactly our government’s intention but if they are
intending to help people I’m supporting our government.
Besides of imposing heavy taxes in order to ban their activities, our
government should increase their rehab facilities so that those people could
get some consult and constructive ideas to start a new life in real world.

ⓒ BettyBlue