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The Korea Sports Promotion Foundation signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Cyber Security Research Center of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology to prevent and crack down on illegal sports gambling.
Officials from both organizations, including Kim Sung-hoon, head of the Sports Industry Corporation, and Cha Sang-gil, head of the Cyber Research Center at KAIST, attended the signing ceremony held at the Olympic Parktel in Seoul on the 17th and promised to join forces to respond to the spread of illegal sports gambling online and mobile, and to promote a new AI-based technology exchange and cooperation system to strengthen preemptive prevention and crackdown capabilities.
"This agreement is an important turning point to fundamentally block illegal sports gambling by utilizing advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology," said an official from the Korea Sports Promotion Foundation who spoke to this newspaper by phone.
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